Crossword-Solution: CHIRONECTES
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| yapock | 2 answers |
| water opossum | 3 answers |
| American marsupial | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHIRONECTES (5)
This marvelous story acquires additional interest, when we consider the characteristic peculiarities of the genus Chironectes.
But nothing is further from the truth than this; how much external resemblance there is between the little otter (Chironectes) of Guiana and the common otter; or again between the common swallow and the swift; and who can doubt that the means and ends of their existence are closely similar, yet how grossly wrong would be the classification, which put close to each other a Marsupial and Placental animal, and two birds with widely different skeletons.
American Indian origin.] (Zoöl.) Defn: Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes.
The water opossum of Brazil (Chironectes variegatus), which has the hind feet, webbed, is provided with a marsupial pouch and with cheek pouches.
Etym: [Probably from the river Oyapok, between French Guiana and Brazil.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil.