Crossword-Solution: BURBOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Burbot | n. | A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “BURBOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BEARDED freshwater fish | 1 answer |
| EEL-like flat-headed bearded freshwater fish | 1 answer |
| FLAT-headed bearded freshwater fish | 1 answer |
| Freshwater cod | 1 answer |
| Freshwater codlike fish | 1 answer |
| freshwater fish of the cod family that has barbels around its mouth | 1 answer |
| BRITISH freshwater fish | 2 answers |
| eelpout | 3 answers |
| ling | 5 answers |
| EEL-like fish | 9 answers |
| BRITISH fish | 15 answers |
| Cod | 18 answers |
| LAKE fish | 31 answers |
| freshwater fish | 67 answers |
| FISH, type of | 73 answers |
| Fish. | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BURBOT (5)
The explanation may be strange: but it is the only one which I can offer to explain the fact—which is itself much more strange—of the burbot being found in the Fen rivers.
But of the kind of fish and fowl which bred therein, what can I say? In the pools around are netted eels innumerable, great water wolves, and pickerel, perch, roach, burbot, lampreys, which the French called sea-serpents; smelts, too; and the royal fish, the turbot [surely a mistake for sturgeon], are said often to be taken.
There is a wood there, with herons sprawling about the tree-tops,--I did not think there were so many in the world,--and fish for Lent and Fridays in every puddle and leat, pike and perch, tench and eels, on every old-wife’s table; while the knights think scorn of anything worse than smelts and burbot.” “Splendeur Dex!” quoth William, who, Norman-like, did not dislike a good dinner.
BURBOT, or EEL-POUT (_Lota vulgaris_), a fish of the family Gadidae, which differs from the ling in the dorsal and anal fins reaching the caudal, and in the small size of all the teeth.
Marengo, however, had no such scruples, and he was wont to make several hearty meals each day upon the rejected burbot.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2010).