Crossword-Solution: MINIVET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Minivet | n. | A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae. |
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| BIRD of plumage | 19 answers |
| Plumed bird | 21 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 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.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MINIVET (5)
The solitary denizen of the plains--the little minivet (_Pericrocotus peregrinus_)--is the least resplendent of them all.
This minivet was common at the Cocoa Research Station, where it usually inhabited the shade trees in the cocoa groves.
However, although birds were fairly numerous, I got but few prizes--best among them, perhaps, a pretty little olive-green and yellow minivet (_Pericrocrotus andamanensis_), and a black racquet-tailed drongo (_Dissemuroides andamanensis_), a bird whose flight, as its long tail feathers stretch out behind, is extremely graceful, and who possessed one of the sweetest combination of notes heard in the jungle.
The Large Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna) is only eaten by very old people “because it is such a very funny-looking bird, and has such a very long beak.” The local species of minivet (Pericrocotus brevirostris) is forbidden to all because the cocks are supposed to have got their scarlet markings from being splashed with human blood.
The interpretation of this song is as follows:— On the tree that I am cutting May a cock minivet perch.