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synonyms for coverts

  • asylum
  • fortress
  • haven
  • hideaway
  • hideout
  • hiding place
  • protection
  • resort
  • retreat
  • sanctuary
  • security
  • shelter
  • stronghold
  • ambush
  • anchorage
  • cover
  • covert
  • den
  • escape
  • exit
  • expedient
  • harbor
  • harborage
  • hole
  • home
  • immunity
  • makeshift
  • opening
  • outlet
  • port
  • preserve
  • recourse
  • resource
  • shield
  • stopgap
  • ivory tower
  • safe place
  • way-out
On this page you'll find 343 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coverts, such as: asylum, fortress, haven, hideaway, hideout, and hiding place.

antonyms for coverts

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  • closure
  • entrance
  • permanent
  • solid
  • advance
  • arrival
  • coming
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                How to use coverts in a sentence

                How could you imagine that I should be thinking of those coverts?
                THE WIDOW'S DOGMARY RUSSELL MITFORD
                The rabbits seemed to have fled from all the coverts about their mountain.
                EARTH'S ENIGMASCHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
                When the English were completely encircled, the Indians rose from the coverts, and advanced towards them with arms presented.
                THE INDIAN: ON THE BATTLE-FIELD AND IN THE WIGWAMJOHN FROST
                The great coverts of the wings are stiff, narrow, and pointed, being shaped quite p. 156different from those of any other bird.
                WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICACHARLES WATERTON
                No path led to this or away from it, but all around him grew grasses and plants which would be natural coverts for wild creatures.
                THE KENTUCKY WARBLERJAMES LANE ALLEN
                The general color is buff, mottled with brown; wing-coverts and speculum, same as the male.
                GAME BIRDS AND GAME FISHES OF THE PACIFIC COASTHARRY THOM PAYNE
                They are of a sooty brown color, upper tail-coverts and side of under-coverts white.
                WESTERN BIRD GUIDECHESTER A. (CHESTER ALBERT) REED, HARRY F. HARVEY, AND REX I. BRASHER
                They are a dark sooty gray, except for the under-coverts, which are whitish.
                WESTERN BIRD GUIDECHESTER A. (CHESTER ALBERT) REED, HARRY F. HARVEY, AND REX I. BRASHER
                Male with chestnut wing coverts and white speculum; the female is similar but the back and wings are brownish-gray.
                WESTERN BIRD GUIDECHESTER A. (CHESTER ALBERT) REED, HARRY F. HARVEY, AND REX I. BRASHER
                Female similar to female Green-wing, but has the blue wing coverts.
                WESTERN BIRD GUIDECHESTER A. (CHESTER ALBERT) REED, HARRY F. HARVEY, AND REX I. BRASHER
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