Crossword-Solution: ENTELLUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Entellus | n. | An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| INDIAN sacred monkey | 1 answer |
| Sacred monkey of India | 1 answer |
| INDIAN monkey | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENTELLUS (5)
Moreover, he put my son Jack upon the fire last Wednesday, as you would put a football, though he is a year older, your worship, because, he said, he looked so like a roasting pig, Sir Richard.” “Alas, poor Jack!” “And what's more, your worship, he is pugnax, bellicosus, gladiator, a fire-eater and swash-buckler, beyond all Christian measure; a very sucking Entellus, Sir Richard, and will do to death some of her majesty's lieges erelong, if he be not wisely curbed.
Yet Virgil has given me the example of Entellus for my encouragement; when he was well heated, the younger champion could not stand before him.
The sacrifice of a goat takes place, and a month later, that of a _langur_ (_Entellus_ monkey) or a bamboo-rat is considered necessary.
With these are associated a monkey, allied to the _Semnopithecus entellus_, now living in the Himalaya, and many ruminants.
The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1991).