Crossword clues for pintado
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pintado \Pin*ta"do\, n.; pl. Pintados. [Sp., painted, fr. pintar to paint.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.
A fish ( Scomberomorus regalis) similar to, but larger than, the Spanish mackerel, and having elongated spots, common about Florida and the West Indies.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bird, the Cape petrel. 2 A fish, the cero.
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Pintado means "painted" in Spanish or "spotted" in Portuguese and may refer to:
- Cape petrel, also known as pintado petrel, a seabird whose range includes Antarctica and New Zealand
- Spotted sorubim Pseudoplatystoma corruscans, a catfish-like species of South American rivers
- (less often:) tiger sorubim Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, known as cachara throughout most of Brazil but as pintado in the Amazon region
- Cero Scomberomorus regalis, a large, spotted, mackerel-like fish, whose range includes the Florida coast and the West Indies, after which two USS Pintado ships were named
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(1943-1969), a Balao class-submarine named for the fish
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(1967-1998), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine named for the fish
- Cerro Pintado, a mountain in South America
- A sombrero pintado, a style of Panama hat
- Pintados, a used by Spanish colonists to describe indigenous people with tattooed bodies residing on the islands of Cebu, Bohol, Samar and Leyte in the Biçayas (Visayas) region of the Philippines
Luís Carlos de Oliveira Preto, known as Pintado (born September 17, 1965 in Bragança Paulista), is a Brazilian football (soccer) manager and football player.
Usage examples of "pintado".
Desengáñese, caro amigo, salga de ese cartón pintado: la verdad se produjo de otra manera.
Decenas de hombrecillos de tez morena con fantásticas corazas de cuero pintado con laca, con bordes dorados y brillantes piedras preciosas, los asaltaron con demoníaco frenesí.
I observed that as long as the wind held southwest or west-southwest great numbers of birds accompanied us, -- pintados, albatross, and blue petrels, -- but that when the wind chopped around to the north, even for an hour or two, the birds left us at once.
On the heights of Pintados, she discovered and confirmed with aerial photographs a series of other stylised figures over a distance of three miles.
The islands were discovered in 1506 by Tristan da Cunha, and the seas in their vicinity are frequented by whales, albatrosses, pintados, boobies, and the sprightly penguin, whose manner of swimming or as it were flying under water irresistibly brings Virgil's remigium alarum to mind.