Crossword-Solution: ACANTHACEAE
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| TROPICAL plant (family) | 2 answers |
| acanthus | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with ACANTHACEAE (5)
They are more common in the family of the Leguminosae than in any other, and next in order in that of the Acanthaceae and Malpighiaceae.
The white or lilac blossoms of the convolvuluslike _Thunbergia,_ and other _Acanthaceae_ were the predominant features of the shrubby vegetation, and very handsome.
The skirts of the forest were adorned with numerous jungle flowers, rice crops, blue _Acanthaceae_ and _Pavetta,_ wild cherry-trees covered with scarlet blossoms, and trees of the purple and lilac _Bauhinia_; while _Thunbergia, Convolvulus,_ and other climbers, hung in graceful festoons from the boughs, and on the dry micaceous rocks the _Luculia gratissima,_ one of our common hot-house ornaments, grew in profusion, its gorgeous heads of blossoms scenting the air.
The tropical forest of India has two flowering seasons; one in summer, of the majority of plants; and the other in winter, of _Acanthaceae, Bauhinia, Dillenia, Bombax,_ etc.
Laurels and wild nutmegs, with _Henslowia, Itea,_ etc., were frequent in the forest, with the usual prevalence of parasites, mistleto, epiphytical _Orchideae, AEshynanthus,_ ferns, mosses, and _Lycopodia_; and on the ground were _Rubiaceae, Scitamineae,_ ferns, _Acanthaceae,_ beautiful balsams, and herbaceous and shrubby nettles.