Crossword-Solution: PANGOLIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pangolin | n. | Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PANGOLIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Long-tailed scaly anteater. | 1 answer |
| scaly-anteater | 1 answer |
| AFRICAN anteater | 2 answers |
| Scaly anteater. | 2 answers |
| Anteater feature | 10 answers |
| Anteater | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PANGOLIN (5)
Peng-goling, signifying the animal which rolls itself up; or pangolin of Buffon: this is distinguished into the peng-goling rambut, or hairy sort (myrmophaga), and the peng-goling sisik, or scaly sort, called more properly tanggiling (species of manis); the scales of this are esteemed by the natives for their medicinal properties.
The days were, as a rule, for the jackal, a succession of sleeping blanks, but at the end of this day it was the fate of a small python--small for a python--to hunt a pangolin--who was as like a thin pineapple with a long tail, if you understand me, as it was like anything, or like a fir-cone many times enlarged, only it was an animal, and a weird one--into that den of thieves.
This ant-eater is known as the "pangolin," or "manis," but there are several species of "pangolin" not African.
The 'kimmori' is made of a pipe of bamboo or blackwood, with frets or screws, which should be fashioned of the scales of the pangolin, or scaly ant-eater, though more often they are made of bone or metal.
Rats are numerous, as are the squirrel and the porcupine, and the pig-rat or bandicoot (_Mus bandicota_), while the scaly ant-eater (_Manis pentedactyla_), locally known by the Malay name of pangolin, is occasionally found.
Quotes with PANGOLIN (1)
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–1963).