Crossword-Solution: HORNBILL
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| Hornbill | n. | Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “HORNBILL”
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| Indian hornbill | 1 answer |
| Large-beaked bird found in Africa | 1 answer |
| Large-beaked tropical bird | 1 answer |
| [aria-label] Zazu from "The Lion King," e.g. | 1 answer |
| bird with a bony growth on its large beak | 1 answer |
| ALCEDO relative | 2 answers |
| Big-beaked tropical bird | 2 answers |
| Big-beaked bird | 4 answers |
| AFRICAN forest bird | 5 answers |
| bird tropical | 14 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
| AFRICAN bird | 48 answers |
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Sentences with HORNBILL (5)
The ferocity of their fierce faces was accentuated by the upturned, bristling tiger cat’s teeth which protruded from every ear; while the long feathers of the Argus pheasant waving from their war-caps, the brilliant colors of their war-coats trimmed with the black and white feathers of the hornbill, and the strange devices upon their gaudy shields but added to the savagery of their appearance as they danced and howled, menacing and intimidating, in the path of the charging foe.
Joan rode on among the avenues of young cocoanut-palms, saw a hornbill, followed it in its erratic flights to the high forest on the edge of the plantation, heard the cooing of wild pigeons and located them in the deeper woods, followed the fresh trail of a wild pig for a distance, circled back, and took the narrow path for the bungalow that ran through twenty acres of uncleared cane.
Syme even saw, with a queer thrill, one dancer dressed like an enormous hornbill, with a beak twice as big as himself—the queer bird which had fixed itself on his fancy like a living question while he was rushing down the long road at the Zoological Gardens.
Perhaps, oh Govinda, it had been just as well, had been just as smart and just as profitable, if I had asked the hornbill-bird or the chimpanzee.
Six different kinds of woodpeckers and four kingfishers were found here, the fine hornbill, Buceros lunatus, more than four feet long, and the pretty little lorikeet, Loriculus pusillus, scarcely more than as many inches.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2003–2024).