Crossword-Solution: CARACARA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Caracara | n. | A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “CARACARA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN carrion-hawks | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN hawk | 1 answer |
| American falcon | 1 answer |
| CENTRAL American hawk | 1 answer |
| MEXICAN national bird | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American hawk | 1 answer |
| Vulture of southern U. S. | 1 answer |
| Vulturine S.A. hawk | 1 answer |
| ANY OF VARIOUS LONG-LEGGED CARRION-EATING HAWKS OF SOUTH AMERICA AND CENTRAL AMERICA | 11 answers |
| Hawk | 32 answers |
| South American bird | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CARACARA (5)
Sometimes the caracara extended its scarlet blossoms from branch to branch, and gave the tree the appearance as though it had been hung with garlands.
The condor, gallinazo, turkey-buzzard, and caracara eagle (says Darwin) "in their habits well supply the place of our carrion crows, magpies, and ravens--a tribe of birds widely distributed over the rest of the world, but entirely absent in South America." The condor appears on the gold coins of New Granada and Chile.
Beasts and birds are its only habitual denizens; its groves the chosen perching place of sweet songsters; its openings the range of the prong-horn antelope and black-tailed deer; while soaring above, or seated on prominent points of the precipice, may be seen the _caracara_, the buzzard, and bald-headed eagle.
When the caracara is quietly seated on the branch of a tree or on the ground, the chimango often continues for a long time flying backwards and forwards, up and down, in a semicircle, trying each time at the bottom of the curve to strike its larger relative.
The flight of the caracara is heavy and slow, and it is generally an inactive, tame, and cowardly bird.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1953–1997).