Crossword-Solution: GUACHARO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Guacharo | n. | A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “GUACHARO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN nocturnal bird | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN oil-bird | 1 answer |
| NIGHTJAR relative | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American nocturnal bird | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American oil-bird | 1 answer |
| VENEZUELAN bird | 1 answer |
| oilbird | 1 answer |
| CAVE-dwelling bird | 2 answers |
| FAT bird | 3 answers |
| Nocturnal bird | 17 answers |
| Tropical bird | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with GUACHARO (5)
That which confers most celebrity on the valley of Caripe, besides the extraordinary coolness of its climate, is the great Cueva, or Cavern of the Guacharo.* (* The province of Guacharucu, which Delgado visited in 1534, in the expedition of Hieronimo de Ortal, appears to have been situated south or south-east of Macarapana.
Guacharo means in Castilian "one who cries and laments;" now the bird of the cavern of Caripe, and the guacharaca (Phasianus parraka) are very noisy birds.) In a country where the people love the marvellous, a cavern which gives birth to a river, and is inhabited by thousands of nocturnal birds, the fat of which is employed in the Missions to dress food, is an everlasting object of conversation and discussion.
Its habits present analogies both with those of the goatsuckers and of the alpine crow.* (* Corvus Pyrrhocorax.) The plumage of the guacharo is of a dark bluish grey, mixed with small streaks and specks of black.
Our Alpine crow builds its nest near the top of Mount Libanus, in subterranean caverns, nearly like the guacharo.
The Indians assured us that the guacharo does not pursue either the lamellicornous insects or those phalaenae which serve as food to the goatsuckers.