Crossword-Solution: SCARUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scarus | n. | A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SCARUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BEAKLIKE-jawed fish | 1 answer |
| BRIGHT colored/coloured fish | 1 answer |
| FISH with beaklike-jaws | 1 answer |
| WRASSE relative | 1 answer |
| BRIGHTLY colored/coloured fish | 2 answers |
| BRILLIANTLY colored/coloured fish | 6 answers |
| Parrot fish | 6 answers |
| ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA CHARACTER | 25 answers |
| COLOURFUL fish | 32 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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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCARUS (5)
Globe-shaped jelly-fish as big as oranges, great cuttlefish bones flat and shining and white, shark’s teeth, spines of echini; sometimes a dead scarus fish, its stomach distended with bits of coral on which it had been feeding; crabs, sea urchins, sea-weeds of strange colour and shape; star-fish, some tiny and of the colour of cayenne pepper, some huge and pale.
The fisherman baited his hook with a piece from the belly of a scarus and lowered it down out of sight, then he belayed the line to a thole pin, and, sitting in the bottom of the boat, hung his head over the side and gazed deep down into the water.
Two species of fish, of the genus Scarus, which are common here, exclusively feed on coral: both are coloured of a splendid bluish-green, one living invariably in the lagoon, and the other amongst the outer breakers.
Another is a couplet from Ovid, the fish referred to being the _scarus_ or bream:— Of all the fish that graze beneath the flood, He, _only_, ruminates his former food.
Without transforming bodily a Roman caena into an English dinner, one may sometimes effect with advantage a trifling change in the less important dishes: a boar must not appear as a baron of beef, but a scarus may perhaps be turned, as I have turned it, into a sardine.