Crossword-Solution: AVOCETS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AVOCETS | anagram | OCTAVES |
We have 10 clues for the answer “AVOCETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Curved-billed wading birds. | 1 answer |
| Long-legged shore birds. | 1 answer |
| Long-legged shorebirds | 1 answer |
| Shorebirds related to stilts | 1 answer |
| Stilts' kin | 1 answer |
| Cousins of plovers | 2 answers |
| Long-legged wading birds | 4 answers |
| Long-legged waders | 5 answers |
| Shore birds. | 13 answers |
| Wading birds | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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Sentences with AVOCETS (5)
Ruddy sheldrakes, mallards, shoveler ducks, and teal were in even the smallest ponds and avocets with sky-blue legs and slender recurved bills ran along the shores of a lake at which we stopped for tiffin.
Stints and sandpipers whirl hither and thither, and graceful black-and-white avocets, with their singular, upturned, slender bills, and long, red-legged stilt-plovers, haunt the shallows.
Long legged, wading Snipe; in Avocets toes four, front three webbed; bill recurved; in Stilts toes three, almost unwebbed; bill straight.
The Stilts secure their food by quick thrusts of the bill, but the Avocets use their singular, upturned member in a more interesting manner.
These are the =Recurvirostridæ=, composed of the stilts and avocets; the =Scolopacidæ=, the snipes, curlews, yellow-legs, willits, marlins, sandpipers, etc.; and the =Charadridæ=, the plovers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1946–2021).