Crossword-Solution: ORTYX
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORTYX (3)
Lester speaks of a rabbit, not knowing that there is no such thing as a wild rabbit in our country, and calls it _Ortyx Virgiana_, when he should have called it _Lepus Virginianus_, the name he uses being the one by which our quail is known to ornithologists.
Kelly says, "Vartikâ, the Sanscrit name of the bird, corresponds etymologically with ortyx, its Greek name; and in the myths of Greece and Asia Minor the quail is a symbol of light and heat." The early Greek mythology has preserved some remains of this bovine personification of the ruddy dawn clouds.
The gallinaceous birds are represented by three species of pheasants, some very close to the domesticated species; _Palæoperdix_ allied to the partridges; and _Palæortyx_, small birds allied to the American genus _Ortyx_, but with larger wings.