Crossword-Solution: MOREPORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Morepork | n. | The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “MOREPORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AUSTRALIAN brown owl | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN small brown owl | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN owl | 3 answers |
| TASMANIAN bird | 5 answers |
| New Zealand bird | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOREPORK (5)
The silence of night was only interrupted by the cries of the “morepork” in the minor key, like the mournful cuckoos of Europe.
And then simultaneously arose all the choral songs of the wilderness,--creatures whose voices are heard at night,--the loud whir of the locusts, the musical boom of the bullfrog, the cuckoo note of the morepork, and, mournful amidst all those merrier sounds, the hoot of the owl, through the wizard she-oaks and the pale green of the gum-trees.
What fun they had swinging on the giant fern leaves, climbing the trees, chasing the fantails, riding the kiwis, who are very good-natured, though shy, and teasing the great, sleepy round-eyed morepork, who is so stupid and _owlish_ in the daytime.
The Piccaninnies who had lived in that part of the bush could never again return to the cool green shades of the forest, never slide down a fern leaf, or swing on the branches, or pick puriri berries, or pelt the morepork in the daytime.
Curiously, Gould, having already assigned the name Morepork to Podargus, in describing the Owlet Night-jar varies the spelling and writes, "little Mawepawk, Colonists of Van Diemen's Land." The New Zealand Morepork is assuredly an owl.