Crossword-Solution: BUTTERBUR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Butterbur | n. | A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BUTTERBUR”
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| Eurasian plant with fragrant whitish or purple flowers and woolly stems | 1 answer |
| LARGE soft-leaved plant | 1 answer |
| SOFT-leaved plant | 1 answer |
| MEADOW plant | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IVINED
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with BUTTERBUR (5)
Pestilence weed (Bot.), the butterbur coltsfoot (Petasites vulgaris), so called because formerly considered a remedy for the plague.
The flowers are collected into a corymbus, somewhat like Butterbur, but more loosely, especially in the lower part, each supported by a very short stalk, accompanied by a very narrow oblong leaf which extends beyond the flower.
What, from the perfume of its flowers, is sometimes called winter heliotrope, is the fragrant butterbur, or sweet-scented coltsfoot, _Petasites_ (_Tussilago_) _fragrans_, a perennial Composite plant.
Here it has cuckoo flowers and creeping jenny and butterbur to feed; thrushes drink of it; beetles dart across it like scullers that dream now and then upon their sculls.
But there the similarity ends, for in Butterbur there is no rising stem, whereas in Burdock this ordinarily reaches a stature of three or four feet.