Crossword-Solution: GARGANEY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Garganey | n. | A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “GARGANEY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old World duck | 3 answers |
| EUROPEAN duck | 4 answers |
| BRITISH bird | 58 answers |
| European bird | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
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Sentences with GARGANEY (5)
Towards the end of the month the garganey or blue-winged teal (_Querquedula circia_), which are the earliest of the migratory ducks to visit India, appear on the tanks.
Among the other genera of _Anatinae_, we must content ourselves by saying that both in Europe and in North America there are the groups represented by the shoveller, garganey, gadwall, teal, pintail and widgeon--each of which, according to some systematists, is the type of a distinct genus.
The labyrinth or bony enlargement of the trachea in the male garganey differs in form from that described in any other drake, being more oval and placed nearly in the median line of the windpipe, instead of on one side, as is usually the case.
THE GARGANEY QUERQUÉDULA CIRCIA Crown dusky; over the eye a white band extending down the neck; throat black; neck chestnut-brown streaked with white; breast pale yellowish brown, with crescent-shaped black bars; back mottled with dusky grey and brown; speculum greyish green bordered above and below with white; bill dark brown; irides brown; feet grey.
These were chiefly Mallards, with Pintails and Pochards (both species), a few Teal, Garganey, and probably other species.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).