Crossword-Solution: MACAW
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| Macaw | n. | Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MACAW (5)
Yes—the elephant, the monkey, the horse, the dog, the parrot, the macaw, the mocking-bird, and many others.
Reconstructing mythology, he had risen, a prismatic macaw, from the ashes of the grey-brown phoenix that had folded its tired wings to roost under the trees of Santa Rosa.
The Lady Tortoise, caressing a scarlet and azure macaw, in her agitation so twitched the feathers that the bird, shrieking, bit her finger.
This district is one of the chief collecting-grounds of the well-known Brazil-nut (_Bertholletia excelsa_), which is here very plentiful, grove after grove of these splendid trees being visible, towering above their fellows, with the “woody fruits, large and round as cannon-balls, dotted over the branches.” The Hyacinthine Macaw (_Ara hyacinthina_) is another natural wonder, first met with here.
These nuts, which are so hard as to be difficult to break with a heavy hammer, are crushed to a pulp by the powerful beak of this macaw.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 349 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).