Crossword-Solution: ICHNEUMON
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| Ichneumon | n. | Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra. |
| Ichneumon | n. | Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ICHNEUMON”
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| IBERIAN mongoose | 1 answer |
| NORTH African mongoose | 1 answer |
| AFRICAN mongoose | 2 answers |
| Small African mongoose | 2 answers |
| Mongoose | 5 answers |
| NORTH African bird | 8 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.
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Sentences with ICHNEUMON (5)
Thus doth the sly ichneumon (25) with his tail Waving, allure the serpent of the Nile Drawn to the moving shadow: he, with head Turned sideways, watches till the victim glides Within his reach, then seizes by the throat Behind the deadly fangs: forth from its seat Balked of its purpose, through the brimming jaws Gushes a tide of poison.
And then comes some secondary parasite, some ichneumon fly, and lays an egg within this grub, and behold! that, too, is a hollow shape, and the new living thing is inside its predecessor’s skin which itself is snug within the seed coat.
Her jar provides me with an Ichneumon {38} possessed of the inoculating larding- pin: a _Cryptus_ who, as a grub, had fed on Spiders' eggs.
There are other Ichneumon-flies, moreover, addicted to robbing Spiders' nests; a basket of fresh eggs is their offspring's regular food.
Such IMMUNE (The expression does not refer to all the enemies of this butterfly; against ichneumon-flies, for instance, their unpleasant smell usually gives no protection.) species, wherever they occur, are imitated by other palatable species, which thus acquire a certain degree of protection.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).