Crossword-Solution: EXOCETUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exocetus | n. | Alt. of Exocoetus |
We have 1 clue for the answer “EXOCETUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FLYING fish (genus) | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXOCETUS (5)
While this may represent a flying fish (_Exocetus_), the head is so bird-like that the whole may be merely a combination figure.
They are of the genus _Exocetus_, and in form and other respects have a considerable resemblance to the common pike.
For a long time there was supposed to be only one, or at most two, species of the _Exocetus_; but it is now certain there are several-- perhaps as many as half a dozen--distinct from each other.
Besides, it is difficult to conceive of a leap twenty feet high and two hundred yards long; for the flight of the _Exocetus_ has been observed to be carried to this extent, and even farther.
The particular species of flying-fish that had fallen into the clutches of the two starving castaways upon the raft was the _Exocetus evolans_, or "Spanish flying-fish" of mariners,--a well-known inhabitant of the warmer latitudes of the Atlantic.