Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Cuckoo's swift cousin ", 10 letters:
roadrunner

Alternative clues for the word roadrunner

Word definitions for roadrunner in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Either of two species of bird in the genus ''Geococcyx'' of the cuckoo family, native to North and Central America. They are fast runners.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas [syn: chaparral cock , Geococcyx californianus ]

Usage examples of roadrunner.

He had no call to tell a Papago mule that roadrunners patrolled for snakes, lizards, and bugs early in the morning or late in the afternoon.

Coyotes watched them from the ridges, roadrunners darted across the road in front of them, and a bobcat was startled into immobility by the unfamiliar presence of the truck before it faded away into the brush.

Frederick scowled as a trio of Roadrunners sped past the cab, honking, their red-clad riders bent low over their necks.

It was a muscle car, a Plymouth Roadrunner, red as a candy apple, half a block away.

Since becoming a roadrunner he had discovered that, in Ne-Issan, the unbridgable gulf between the various clans had been forcibly broken down.