Crossword-Solution: ACCENTOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Accentor | n. | One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. |
| Accentor | n. | A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “ACCENTOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dunnock | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN mountain bird | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN sparrow-like bird | 1 answer |
| SPARROW-like bird | 1 answer |
| ovenbird | 1 answer |
| prunella | 1 answer |
| hedge sparrow | 2 answers |
| MOUNTAIN bird | 3 answers |
| THRUSH (bird) relative | 4 answers |
| songbird | 42 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
| small bird | 51 answers |
| BRITISH bird | 58 answers |
| European bird | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACCENTOR (5)
One of these is the Alpine Accentor (_Accentor collaris_), which on rare occasions visits England, and Northern Europe generally.
Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination says:--"On the 18th of June, 1787, I examined the nest of a hedge-sparrow (_Accentor modularis_), which then contained a cuckoo and three hedge-sparrows' eggs.
SUB-FAMILY ACCENTORINÆ THE HEDGE SPARROW ACCENTOR MODULÁRIS Crown of the head ash colour, with brown streaks; sides of the neck, throat, and breast, bluish grey; bill strong and broad at base; wing-coverts and feathers on the back reddish brown, with a tawny spot in the centre; middle wing-coverts tipped with yellowish white; lower tail-coverts brown, with a whitish border; middle of abdomen white.
Hedge Accentor, Hedge Warbler, and Shuffle-wing, are names open to those who prefer them, but we adhere to the old-fashioned designation of Hedge Sparrow.
Besides these, we also observed the Egyptian Vulture, the Alpine pipit (_Anthus spipoletta_), and Alpine accentor (_Accentor collaris_), both common, the blue thrush, rock-thrush, nuthatch, and Dartford warbler: and on May 10th, at 5,500 feet, after a stormy night, picked up, in a disabled state, a pretty little bluethroat (_Cyanecula wolfi_, Brehm) of the _unspotted_ variety, with entirely blue gorget.