Crossword-Solution: HOOPOE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hoopoe | n. | Alt. of Hoopoo |
We have 27 clues for the answer “HOOPOE”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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Hint 1 meaning
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
CAZEEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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.
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 kingfisher, bee-eater, roller, hoopoe, woodpeckers, etc., utter harsh cries; and the brilliant birds of the tropics are hardly ever songsters.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1944–2007).