Crossword-Solution: ASAFOETIDA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asafoetida | n. | The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ASAFOETIDA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ASAFETIDA | 1 answer |
| Gum resin used medically | 1 answer |
| Resin with onion like smell used in Eastern cooking and formerly in medicines | 1 answer |
| Bitter medicine | 2 answers |
| RESINOUS plant gum used in medicine | 2 answers |
| gum resin | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ASAFOETIDA (5)
Efforts were also made to drive him out with filthy and rank-smelling drugs; and, among those which can be mentioned in a printed article, we may name asafoetida, sulphur, squills, etc., which were to be burned under his nose.
This authority, even more than Walton, deals in mysterious 'Oyntments' of gum ivy, horse-leek, asafoetida, man's fat, cat's fat, powdered skulls, and grave earth.
The ingredients, which had to do with roasted gazelle, were oil and coriander seed and--if my memory serves me--asafoetida.” “Ugh!” Mrs.
That's the way I put it up.” He had brought a lot of chicken feathers, and dried apples, and leaf tobacco, and rags, and old shoes, and sulphur, and asafoetida, and one thing or another; and he, piled them on a breadth of sheet iron in the middle of the floor, and set fire to them.
Between a snail and a stone he could find little difference, and as the one bug he tried happened to be that asafoetida-like creature known as a stink-bug he made no further efforts in that direction.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1972–1973).