Crossword-Solution: CENTAURY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Centaury | n. | A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “CENTAURY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| genus of 20 species in the gentian family | 1 answer |
| Bitter plant | 7 answers |
| ANY PLANT OF THE GENUS CENTAUREA | 11 answers |
| ANY OF VARIOUS PLANTS OF THE GENUS CENTAURIUM | 11 answers |
| BRITISH herbaceous plant | 23 answers |
| Herb | 48 answers |
| BRITISH plant | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CENTAURY (5)
Then do I bid burn scented galbanum, And, honey-streams through reeden troughs instilled, Challenge and cheer their flagging appetite To taste the well-known food; and it shall boot To mix therewith the savour bruised from gall, And rose-leaves dried, or must to thickness boiled By a fierce fire, or juice of raisin-grapes From Psithian vine, and with its bitter smell Centaury, and the famed Cecropian thyme.
Around her were the blue flowers softly waving to and fro, and beyond the gleaming patches of the cistus flowers and the red centaury, while the sweet scent of the brown blossoms and of the fragrant prunella enveloped her as she sat.
Between the cracks of the flags sprang grass, and pink-starred centaury, and even a trail of mallow sprawled over the steps where Gillian lay in tears, as though to wreathe her head with its striped blooms.
And at certain times in summer, when the wood is altogether lovely with centaury and purple loosestrife, you can hardly miss the pool for the fairies that flock there.
Centaury: the herb so called because by its virtue the centaur Chiron was healed when the poisoned arrow of Hercules had accidentally wounded his foot.