Crossword-Solution: SMEW
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Smew | n. | small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. |
| Smew | n. | The hooded merganser. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SMEW | anagram | MEWS, WSEM |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SMEW (5)
Many rarities have been obtained in the district such as _the Kite, the Great Plover, the Smew_, and _the Golden Eagle_, and numerous varieties of wildfowl during the winter months.
According to McKerrow, the bird in this handsome device, with the word "wick" in its bill, is probably a smew, with a pun intended on the name of the owner of the device, Smethwick.
Eng.] Vare widgeon (Zoöl.), a female or young male of the smew; a weasel duck; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a vare, or weasel.
THE SMEW MERGUS ALBELLUS Crest, neck, scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, and all the under parts white; cheeks and back of the head greenish black; two crescent-shaped marks advancing from the shoulders on each side to the breast black; tail ash coloured; bill and feet bluish grey, the membranes black; irides brown.
The Smew, or Smee, properly so called, is a winter visitor with us, more impatient of cold than the Duck-tribe generally, and consequently frequenting the southern more than the northern parts of the island.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 242 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).