Definitions for anhinga

anhinga an·hin·ga

Spelling: [an-hing-guh]
IPA: /ænˈhɪŋ gə/

Anhinga is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in anhinga (aaghinn).

Definitions for anhinga

noun

  1. any of various totipalmate swimming birds of the family Anhingidae, having a very long and flexible neck.

Origin of anhinga

1760-70; Portuguese Tupi ayingá

Examples for anhinga

A bird found in Florida, the anhinga, has in its brain a nematode whose presence in that organ is not accidental.

The flesh of the anhinga is not valuable, as it is hard and tough.

It was an anhinga, one of the most singular specimens of web-footed birds that can be found anywhere.

The latter, I must confess, did not seem to us so nice as the dark-colored meat of the anhinga.

He says he found a peculiar parasite in the brain of the anhinga.

Ripley reports the occurrence of "about a dozen anhingas (presumably anhinga melanogaster)" at Babelthuap on 12 November 1946.

Word Value for anhinga
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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