Crossword-Solution: POISERS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POISERS (5)
Halteres: the poisers or balancers: capitate movable filaments in Diptera, situated one on each side of the thorax and representing rudimentary hind wings.
Secondly, from the apparent progress of many animals to greater perfection, as in some insects, as the flies with two wings, termed Diptera; which have rudiments of two other wings, called halteres, or poisers; and in many flowers which have rudiments of new stamina, or filaments without anthers on them.
Large flies like gnats with great black wings were flying about in the air, which I had before taken, May 27, for some species of _Musca_; but their peculiar flight now gave me another opinion, which was strengthened by the form of their poisers (_halteres_) and the round entire figure of their wings.
The only order having but two wings, the hind pair replaced by a pair of small, slender filaments clubbed at tip, and called halteres, poisers, or balancers.
The transparent, colorless wings extend beyond the body: winglets are long and cover the poisers: abdomen is formed of five rings.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1998).