Riddles and Descriptions of Nature
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- My sting is harmful, my body insignificant, but the nectar that I give you
you eat instantly. (the bee)
2.- Lives in the desert, kills people, under the stones, very well.
Arrange. (The scorpion)
With her morning laughter, she stirs up the whole beach, fisherwoman and sailor.
seagull
4.- We are travelers dressed in black, underneath the tiles we make our nests.
The Swallows
5.- With greenish colors, big and bulging eyes, we have the back legs.
too long to jump. (The frogs)
They are chocolate-colored, they soften with heat and if they are put in the oven.
They explode with great fury. (The chestnuts)
They call her a vixen, you see, even though she’s always upside down, she gets eaten by the Japanese and is a dish.
It is very tasty. What is it? (The rice)
8.- I was born in green branches, I was squeezed in a mill, I got into a well, and from the
They took me to the kitchen to fry. (The oil)
9.- The most tuna from the tree, the most authentic, once squeezed goes to the pan.
olive
10.-It has teeth and does not eat. It has a head and is not a man. (Garlic)
11.- There are those who drink through the mouth, which is the way of drinking, but I know of someone who
drink only through the feet. (The tree)
12.-On the mountain was born what was never sown; it has green little feet and
the red cap. (The poppy)
13.- I am born and die constantly; nonetheless, I continue to exist, and, without leaving my bed,
I always find myself running. (The river)
14.- It is a huge orange but with salty juice, the segments are supposed to be among
a pair of meridians. (The earth)
15.- Roar to roar, before the storms we have all heard it. (The thunder)
16.- The scholar enters, never the slacker, looking for books that he will find there.
(The library)
17.- I am always here for all the children. I remain closed and sad.
Sundays. (The school)
It has four legs, as well as a seat; I get up from it and I sit on it.
(The chair)
19.- You see her very often, think a little cleverly, when she is black, she is
Clean, when it is white, it is dirty. (The blackboard)
A white lady, through a black field, walks and walks and the field fills up.
of white footprints. (The chalk and the board)