Crossword-Solution: UNIO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unio | n. | Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UNIO | anagram | NIOU |
We have 15 clues for the answer “UNIO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A mussel. | 1 answer |
| European mussel. | 1 answer |
| Genus of freshwater mussels often used in biological studies | 1 answer |
| Genus of freshwater mussels. | 1 answer |
| Genus of mussels | 1 answer |
| Mussel genus | 1 answer |
| Mussel used by button makers | 1 answer |
| Oneness: Latin. | 1 answer |
| Pearly mussel | 1 answer |
| RIVER mussel | 1 answer |
| RIVER shellfish | 1 answer |
| Genus of mollusks | 2 answers |
| Freshwater mussel | 2 answers |
| Mussel. | 5 answers |
| Mollusk genus | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with UNIO (5)
Nicaise has lately discovered at Moulin d’Oyes (Marne) a necklace made of calx balls, shells, and pendants cut out of the scales of unio shells.
Among these last, the four most common forms, both recent and fossil, are _Cyclas, Cyrena, Unio,_ and _Anodonta_ (see Figures); the two first and two last of which are so nearly allied as to pass into each other.
Out of fifteen species of shells of the genera _Paludina, Melania, Ampullaria,_ and _Unio,_ all are extinct or unknown species with the exception of four, which are still inhabitants of Indian rivers.
Among the shells which abound in this cliff are _Paludina lenta_ and various species of _Lymnea, Planorbis, Melania, Cyclas, Unio, Potamomya, Dreissena,_ etc.
Traced in one direction, or eastward towards Herne Bay, the Woolwich beds assume more and more of a marine character; while in an opposite, or south-western direction, they become, as near Chelsea and other places, more fresh-water, and contain _Unio, Paludina,_ and layers of lignite, so that the land drained by the ancient river seems clearly to have been to the south-west of the present site of the metropolis.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1943–1996).