Crossword-Solution: TACONIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taconic | a. | Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TACONIC | anagram | CATONIC, OCCITAN |
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| Mount Greylock's range | 1 answer |
| New York's ___ State Parkway | 1 answer |
| New York's longest parkway, with "the" | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TACONIC (5)
Louis; Ingleside School, Taconic School and the Catherine Aiken School, in Connecticut; Science Hill, at Shelbyville, Kentucky; Ferry Hall, at Lake Forest, Illinois; the El Paso School for Girls; the Lincoln School, in Providence, Rhode Island; Wyoming Seminary, another coeducational school; as well as schools for American girls in Germany, France, and Italy.
The Taconic range, uplifted partially at least at the close of the Ordovician, and the block mountains of the Triassic, together with the pre- Cambrian mountains of ancient Appalachia, had now all been worn to a common level with the Allegheny ranges.
Our southern view at that time, with the clouds and atmospherical hues, is quite indescribable and unimaginable; and the various distances of the hills which lie between us and the remote dome of Taconic are brought out with an accuracy unattainable in summer.
This was such a snow-storm! Twenty miles of it might have been visible at once, between the windows of Tanglewood and the dome of Taconic, had it been possible to see so far, among the eddying drifts that whitened all the atmosphere.
The Hoosac and Taconic ranges may be considered as a portion of the great Appalachian system of eastern North America, of which the Green Mountains of Vermont are a continuation; while the third hilly belt may be regarded as a side-show, so to speak, to the main exhibition of nature's mighty upheavals.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2005–2019).