Crossword-Solution: SHOEBILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shoebill | n. | A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak. |
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| Large wading bird, allied to the heron. | 1 answer |
| large wading bird of tropical E African swamps | 1 answer |
| African wading bird | 5 answers |
| LARGE bird | 30 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 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.
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eruption
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Sentences with SHOEBILL (3)
She wanted to stop and make friends with the Shoebill, a super-stork, apparently carved in shining metal, with a bill like an enormous slipper, eyes like the hundredth- part-of-a-second stop in a Kodak, and feet that tested each new tuft of grass on the lawn, as if it were a specimen of some hitherto undiscovered thing.
Otherwise I couldn't _stand_ it; and afterward would be too late." Hastily I rushed her out into the garden, where the Shoebill regarded her with one eye of prehistoric wisdom.
THE SHOEBILL OR WHALE-HEADED STORK Balaeniceps rex Arabic name, _Abu-markub_, or Father of a Slipper The whole plumage is a faded blue-grey running into darker tones on the wing.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).