Crossword-Solution: ALGAROBA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Algaroba | n. | The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. |
| Algaroba | n. | The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. |
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| Mesquite | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALGAROBA (5)
And again, from under the dark algaroba tree arose the laugh of a woman that was a love-cry; and past his chair, on the way to bed, a bare-legged youngster was led by a chiding Japanese nurse-maid.
The voices of the singers broke softly and meltingly into an Hawaiian love-song, and officers and women, with encircling arms, were gliding and whirling on the _lanai_; and once again the woman laughed under the algaroba trees.
This was instantly recognized by Percival, who proclaimed it to be the algaroba, a plant commonly found on the Gran Chaco in Argentina.
The wire cost little more at Rosario than it would have done in England, and the chief trouble was bringing the posts, which were made of algaroba wood, from the town.
Esparto, the coarse grass which grows almost everywhere in Spain, has long been an article of commerce, as well as the algaroba bean--said to be the locust bean, on which John the Baptist might have thriven--for it is the most fattening food for horses and cattle, and produces in them a singularly glossy and beautiful coat.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).