Crossword-Solution: FREGATA
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| FRIGATE bird (genus) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FREGATA (5)
And forty of the slaves having entered the _fregata_, or row-boat, and being stronger than those who guarded her, they threw them all into the sea; and it being their business to hasten out of the port, embarrassed with cables of the many ships which then quite filled it, and as they were desirous of taking the shortest cut, they took the resolution of leaping all into the water, hoisting up the boat on their shoulders, and wading with it till clear of all those cables.
Frigate bird (Zoöl.), a web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus Fregata; -- called also man-of-war bird, and frigate pelican.
Compared with _Fregata ariel iredalei_ Mathews of the western Indian Ocean these are large birds with heavy bills, and appear wholly referable to true _ariel_ of Australia etc.
There seems to be no ground for disputing this decision so far as separating the genus _Fregata_ from the _Pelecanidae_ goes, but systematists will probably pause before they proceed to abolish the _Steganopodes_, and the result will most likely be that the frigate-birds will be considered to form a distinct family (_Fregatidae_) in that group.
Two species of _Fregata_ are considered to exist, though they differ in little but size and geographical distribution.