Crossword-Solution: CROSSBILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crossbill | - | A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. |
| Crossbill | n. | A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CROSSBILL”
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| JAPANESE bird | 2 answers |
| loxia | 2 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
| NORTH American bird | 48 answers |
| passerine bird | 49 answers |
| American 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
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CROSSBILL (5)
Weir was also obliged to turn out a robin, as it fiercely attacked all the birds in his aviary with any red in their plumage, but no other kinds; it actually killed a red-breasted crossbill, and nearly killed a goldfinch.
And then the fashion of making natural history collections has much extended of recent years: so much so, that many blame too ardent collectors for the increasing rarity of birds like the crossbill, waxwing, hoopoe, golden oriole, and others which seem to have once visited this country more commonly than at present.
Pennant observes that the hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, and crossbill, migrate into England so rarely, and at such uncertain times, as not to deserve to be ranked among our birds of passage, (ibid.
And, though all the summer hopes of escaping the grave were taken from human life, choicest and tenderest virtues might still flourish, as it is said the German crossbill pairs and broods in the dead of winter.
The other birds most likely to visit this feast during January are the flicker, crow, purple finch, song sparrow, white-breasted nuthatch, snow-flake; American crossbill, white-throated sparrow, tree sparrow, junco, winter wren, golden-crowned kinglet, brown creeper, and even the solitary robin.