Crossbill is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 239 anagrams from letters in crossbill (bcillorss).
First recorded in 1665-75; cross- + bill2
A Maine hunter was once shooting moose in the middle of January, when he came upon the nest of a crossbill, with the bird sitting.
The crossbill troubles itself but little about the other inhabitants of the woods, and is said to be almost fearless of man.
Their curving bills are crossed at the tip, which strange arrangement gives them their name of crossbill.
The crossbill derives its name from having the tips of its bill crossed.
The American, or Red, crossbill is the more common of our two.
The crossbill must be mentioned for the sake of the peculiarity indicated by its name.
The curious beak of a crossbill (Fig 6) is to pick seeds out of pine cones.
Sometimes we find them in cones Snipper the crossbill has opened but hasn't picked all the seeds out of.
There is an odd superstition connected with the crossbill, in Thuringia, which makes the wood-cutters very careful of the nests.
We had hoped to find in these forests a home of the Spanish crossbill, but not a sign of it rewarded our search.
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