Crossword-Solution: DRONGO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drongo | n. | A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DRONGO | anagram | GORDON, GRODNO |
We have 17 clues for the answer “DRONGO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| STARLING-like bird | 1 answer |
| INDIAN black bird | 1 answer |
| FORK-tailed black bird | 1 answer |
| AFRICAN black bird | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN black bird | 1 answer |
| slang: used in Australia to refer to an unintelligent person | 2 answers |
| Aussie fool | 2 answers |
| SIMPLETON (sl.) | 3 answers |
| MADAGASCAR bird | 4 answers |
| FORK-tailed bird | 6 answers |
| Africa bird | 18 answers |
| black bird | 19 answers |
| INDIAN bird | 24 answers |
| Asia bird | 28 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
| stupid person | 56 answers |
| Simpleton | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DRONGO (5)
Swinhoe states that with one of the Drongo shrikes (Dicrurus macrocercus) the male, whilst almost a nestling, moults his soft brown plumage and becomes of a uniform glossy greenish-black; but the female retains for a long time the white striae and spots on the axillary feathers; and does not completely assume the uniform black colour of the male for three years.
Thousands of crows, rather smaller than our rook, keep up a constant cawing in these plantations; the curious wood-swallows (Artami), which closely resemble swallows in their habits and flight but differ much in form and structure, twitter from the tree-tops; while a lyre-tailed drongo-shrike, with brilliant black plumage and milk-white eyes, continually deceives the naturalist by the variety of its unmelodious notes.
BULLY, SWAGGERER, SWASHBUCKLER The drongo shrike is another permanent resident; glossy black, with a metallic shimmer on the shoulders, long-tailed, sharp of bill and masterful.
With the loose end of bark in his bill, tugging and fluttering, using his tail as a lever with the tree as a fulcrum, and objurgating in unseemly tones, as the bark resists his efforts, the drongo assists the Moreton Bay ash in discarding worn-out epidermis, and the tree reciprocates by offering safe nesting-place on its most brittle branches.
Though denied fluency of utterance, the spangled drongo has no rival in the peculiar character of the notes and calls over which he has secure copyright.