Crossword clues for limpkin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limpkin \Limp"kin\ (l[i^]mp"k[i^]n), n. (Zo["o]l.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species ( Aramus giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other ( Aramus scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.
Wiktionary
n. A large bird, ''Aramus guarauna'', found in marshes in the Caribbean, Central America and southern Florida.
WordNet
n. wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call [syn: Aramus pictus]
Wikipedia
The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a bird that looks like a large rail but is skeletally closer to cranes. It is the only extant species in the genus Aramus and the family Aramidae. It is found mostly in wetlands in warm parts of the Americas, from Florida to northern Argentina. It feeds on molluscs, with the diet dominated by apple snails of the genus Pomacea. Its name derives from its seeming limp when it walks.
Usage examples of "limpkin".
The Dogbird began to lean with Cordavius and the Marabou, but the Flamingohawk, Shoebill and Limpkin remained adamant.
The Flamingohawk, Limpkin and Shoebill insisted that the record show their voices to be the dissenting ones.
I spied limpkins as well as ibises, snakebirds and species I cannot catalogue.
Shad watched the scutellated humpback sink, and then heard the air around him go mad for a moment as limpkins, bitterns, ibises, jorees and ducks took off screaming and flapping.
After a while their roars and grunts and hisses died down, and after a longer while the hurons and limpkins and what-all birds let off their squawking.
Squawk hurons cut loose as though they’d been picked alive, and limpkins began wailing their we-are-lost-children cry.
But mostly the island was alive with birds: nighthawks, ospreys, snowy egrets, spoonbills, limpkins, parrots, blue herons, cormorants, the rare owl.
Limpkin looked up but all he could discern were three flagpoles: to the right, Toriman's personal flag with the family coat of arms.
Toriman had given Limpkin comparatively little to go on in the creation of the rechanneling arm of the Admiralty.
After the eventual success of the Yuma war, and the sending of a secret expedition to the Yards, Limpkin found that the next logical step would be to begin leaking word of the Myth of the Ship, as it has since been called, to the people.
Seeing at once that here was a man tailored for the job at hand, Limpkin enlisted him as the head of the technical elite which would rule in the Yards -- and which would build the ship.