Crossword-Solution: TOWHEE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Towhee | n. | The chewink. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “TOWHEE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| bird American | 1 answer |
| Rufous-sided bird | 1 answer |
| Red-eyed sparrow | 1 answer |
| North American sparrow | 1 answer |
| N American brownish-coloured sparrow | 1 answer |
| Long-tailed finch | 1 answer |
| Ground robin | 1 answer |
| American sparrow relative | 1 answer |
| Buntings' kin | 2 answers |
| American finch | 2 answers |
| BUNTING relative | 2 answers |
| CHEWINK | 3 answers |
| Variety of finch | 3 answers |
| chewink Chinese | 10 answers |
| Chinese chewink | 10 answers |
| finch | 12 answers |
| Bunting | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TOWHEE (5)
American species are the bayÐwinged or grass (Po”c‘tes or PoÒcetes gramineus); the blackÐthroated (Spiza Americana); the towhee bunting or chewink (Pipilo); the snow bunting (Plectrophanax nivalis); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others.
Towhee is on it right now, and I suspect she's worrying and anxious to know what happened over here when you warned me about Reddy Fox.
Others of the family are the two purple finches (reddish birds), the pine-finch, very plain and streaked, the green-tailed towhee, with its cat-like call, and the white-crowned sparrow,--its sweetly melancholy song, "Oh, dear me," in falling cadence, is heard in every Sierran meadow.
One of the first birds met with on these unpromising acclivities was the spurred towhee of the Rockies.
And would you believe it? Colorado furnishes another towhee, though why he should have been put into the Pipilo group by the ornithologists is more than I can tell at this moment.
Quotes with TOWHEE (1)
Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry — ee-ock-ee — with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, "tweet". I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1973–2007).