Crossword-Solution: STURNUS
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with STURNUS (5)
STARLING (_Sturnus vulgaris_).—Green bedropped with gold when seen closely, but at a distance looking more like a rusty blackbird, though its gait on the lawn always distinguishes it, being a walk instead of a hop.
This was the bird which Bontius considered "went one better" than Ovid's famous parrot:-- "Psittacus, Eois quamvis tibi missus ab oris Jussa loquar; vincit me sturnus garrulus Indis." The mynahs have also the starling's habit of building in houses, and especially in temples.
THE STURNIDĆ OR STARLING FAMILY The Himalayan starling (_Sturnus humii_) is so like his European brother in appearance that it is scarcely possible to distinguish between the two species unless they are seen side by side.
The _Sturnus ludovicianus_ and _Picus auratus_ of the United States, are also found in California; the _Percnopterus californicus_, _Corvus mexicanus_, and _Perdix californica_, are already known.
The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white.