Crossword-Solution: HOOPOE 6 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Hoopoe n. Alt. of Hoopoo

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BIRD with large crest 1 answer
large-crested bird 1 answer
bird with a pinkish-brown plumage 1 answer
Pink Eurasian bird with black-and-white wings and tail 1 answer
Long-beaked, high-crested bird. 1 answer
Kingfisher's relative 1 answer
Fancy-coiffed bird 1 answer
European crested bird. 1 answer
Crested Eurasian bird with an onomatopoeic name 1 answer
Bird with a fanlike crest 1 answer
Bird named for its peculiar cry 1 answer
Bird house originally opened by American writer 1 answer
ALCEDO relative 2 answers
PALESTINIAN bird 3 answers
NONPASSERINE bird 3 answers
lapwing 9 answers
CRESTED LARGELY BLUE BIRD 10 answers
bird crest 10 answers
ANY OF SEVERAL CRESTED OLD WORLD BIRDS WITH A SLENDER DOWNWARD-CURVED BILL 11 answers
bird long billed 11 answers
Long-billed bird 13 answers
OLD World bird 14 answers
European birds bird 14 answers
Crested bird 15 answers
bird European birds 19 answers
small bird 51 answers
European bird 64 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HOOPOE (5)

But men, because they are themselves afraid of death, slanderously affirm of the swans that they sing a lament at the last, not considering that no bird sings when cold, or hungry, or in pain, not even the nightingale, nor the swallow, nor yet the hoopoe; which are said indeed to tune a lay of sorrow, although I do not believe this to be true of them any more than of the swans.
Phaedo Plato 1999
Wherever one turned, from every direction came the note of the golden oriole and the shrill cry of the hoopoe and the red-legged falcon.
The Wife and Other Stories Anton Chekhov 2006
The kingfisher, bee-eater, roller, hoopoe, woodpeckers, etc., utter harsh cries; and the brilliant birds of the tropics are hardly ever songsters.
The Descent of Man Charles Darwin 1999
Air is at the same time swallowed, and the oesophagus thus becomes much swollen; and this probably acts as a resonator, not only with the hoopoe, but with pigeons and other birds.
The Descent of Man Charles Darwin 1999
Swinhoe, R., on the common rat in Formosa and China; behaviour of lizards when caught; on the sounds produced by the male hoopoe; on Dicrurus macrocercus and the spoonbill; on the young of Ardeola; on the habits of Turnix; on the habits of Rhynchaea bengalensis; on Orioles breeding in immature plumage.
The Descent of Man Charles Darwin 1999

Quotes with HOOPOE (2)

The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice; When will you free yourself from cowardice? Since you have such a short time to live here, What difference does it make? What should you fear? The world is filth and sin, and homeless men Must enter it and homeless leave again. They die, as worms, in squalid pain; if we Must perish in this quest, that, certainly, Is better than a life of filth and grief. If this great search is vain, if my belief Is groundless, it is right th…
Farid ud-Din Attar The Conference of the Birds
Once upon a time an Athenian princesss named Prokne was wed to Tereus, king of the barbarous Thracians of the north. When Prokne's unfortunate sister, Philomela, came for a visit, Tereus fell madly in love with the girl locked her away and raped her, then cut out her tongue to prevent her from telling anyone of the crime. Philomela, however, wove into a cloth the story of her misfortune. When Prokne, receiving the cloth, understood what had befallen, she freed her sister, kil…
Elizabeth Wayland Barber Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1944–2007).