Crossword-Solution: LONGSPUR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Longspur | n. | Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States. |
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| Bird with brownish plumage | 1 answer |
| North American bird with brownish plumage | 1 answer |
| any of various Arctic and North American buntings | 1 answer |
| finch | 12 answers |
| Arctic bird | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LONGSPUR (5)
Many of our more vigorous species, as the butcherbird, the crossbills, the pine grosbeak, the redpoll, the Bohemian chatterer, the shore lark, the longspur, the snow bunting, etc., are common to both continents.
Lap-longspur, Snowbird, Shorelarks, and Pipits are here soaring and singing, or among the barren rocks are Ptarmigan in garments that are painted in the patterns of their rocks.
With a falcon-like swoop, the pirate seized the Longspur in his bill and bore it away to be devoured at the nearest perch.
Smith's Painted Longspur is usually considered a rare bird in the middle west, but a recent observer found it very common in the fields.
The Longspur is a ground feeder, and the mark of his long hind claw, or spur, can often be seen in the new snow.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–2006).