Crossword-Solution: ECHIS
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ECHIS (5)
The shade attracts vipers, chiefly the Echis: and I was startled by hearing the gay warble of the Bulbul--a nightingale in Arabia! The next day was devoted to inspecting this far-famed site, with the following results.
The Viper's Bugloss is called botanically _Echium_, having been formerly considered antidotal to the bite of (_Echis_) a viper: and its seed was thought to resemble the reptile's head: wherefore such a curative virtue became attributed to it after the doctrine of signatures.
Darwin speaks of the hissing of certain snakes, the rattle of the rattle-snake, the grating of the scales of the echis, each of which serves to frighten or terrify the enemy.
Nevertheless, as he nameth them _viperas_, so he calleth the male _echis_, and the female _echidna_, concluding in the end that _echis_ is the same serpent which his countrymen to this day call _ein atter_, as I have also noted before out of a Saxon dictionary.
Among reptiles are several kinds of venomous snakes--the horned viper, the hooded snake and the echis.