Crossword-Solution: ASAFETIDA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asafetida | n. | Alt. of Asafoetida |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ASAFETIDA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Smelly gum resin from the Orient. | 1 answer |
| bitter resin with an unpleasant onion-like smell | 1 answer |
| RESINOUS plant gum used in medicine | 2 answers |
| asafoetida | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASAFETIDA (5)
The ancients used asafetida as a seasoning, and what we have called "stercus diaboli," the Asiatics have named the "food of the gods." The inhabitants of Greenland drink the oil of the whale with as much avidity as we would a delicate wine, and they eat blubber the mere smell of which nauseates an European.
Likewise, in the spring of the year he frequently anointed the young of the species with a mixture of mutton suet and asafetida.
But supplying himself with asafetida, which he occasionally rubbed over the soles of his shoes, to elude the scent of bloodhounds, he again followed the north star, and finally reached our home.
Lights out! CHAPTER VI MAX AND THE ASAFETIDA SPOON I do wish the great man who is discovering how to put people into some sort of metaphysical pickle that will suspend their animations until he gets ready to wake them up, would hurry up with his investigations, so he can catch Sallie before she begins to fade or wilt.
Don't tell the dumpling, but we are going to rub asafetida on her shoes and leave her to rest on a stone so as to lose her good and then find her by smelling her track like true Scouts.
Quotes with ASAFETIDA (1)
Inside, the box was divided into tiered chambers, each with a lacquered lid, and these held a selection of ground and whole spices: sage, turmeric, cumin, ginger, mustard, cinnamon, asafetida, mace, cayenne, and cloves. I felt like an emperor receiving the treasures of a new country. The odor rising from the box was like a clambering vine wrapping itself thickly around my head, musky with the deep minerals of the earth and dusting my shoulders with a rainbow of pollen.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).