Crossword-Solution: JACANA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jacana | n. | Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “JACANA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bird that walks on floating leaves | 1 answer |
| long-legged long-toed bird | 1 answer |
| lily trotter | 1 answer |
| Wading bird or timber tree | 1 answer |
| Tropical bird, also called lily trotter | 1 answer |
| Long-toed aquatic bird | 1 answer |
| LAGOON bird | 1 answer |
| INDIAN marsh bird | 1 answer |
| INDIAN lagoon bird | 1 answer |
| FLOATING plants, bird able to walk on | 1 answer |
| CHINESE marsh bird | 1 answer |
| CHINESE lagoon bird | 1 answer |
| BIRD able to walk on floating plants | 1 answer |
| TROPICAL wading bird | 2 answers |
| CHINESE bird | 2 answers |
| bird Mexican | 2 answers |
| tree timber | 11 answers |
| bird tropical | 14 answers |
| bird Water | 15 answers |
| BRAZILIAN bird | 21 answers |
| INDIAN bird | 24 answers |
| Marsh bird | 28 answers |
| water bird | 34 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN waterbird | 35 answers |
| Tropical bird | 40 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 answers |
| timber tree | 43 answers |
| Aquatic bird | 54 answers |
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Sentences with JACANA (5)
Long-legged piosócas (Perra Jacana) stalked over the water plants on the surface of the pool, and in the bushes on its margin were great numbers of a kind of canary (Sycalis brasiliensis) of a greenish-yellow colour, which has a short and not very melodious song.
The natives call it the furno do Piosoca, or oven of the Jacana, the shape of the leaves being like that of the ovens on which Mandioca meal is roasted.
Wading and aquatic birds were abundant in the marshes, amongst which white cranes and a chocolate-brown jacana, with lemon-yellow under wing, were the most conspicuous.
The singular wattled, wing-spurred, and long-, toed jacana has a remarkable performance, which seems specially designed to bring out the concealed beauty of the silky, greenish-golden wing-quills-The birds go singly or in pairs, and a dozen or fifteen individuals may be found in a marshy place feeding within sight of each other.
The nearest approach to a generalisation which it is possible to make is that the egrets and paddy-birds are usually the first of the monsoon breeders to begin nest-building, while the spot-billed duck, the whistling teal and the bronze-winged jacana are the last.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1977–1998).