Crossword-Solution: CEREUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cereus | n. | A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CEREUS | anagram | CERUSE, RECUES, RECUSE, RESCUE, SECURE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CEREUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Night-blooming cactus | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American cacti | 1 answer |
| Tropical cactus | 1 answer |
| Cactus plant | 4 answers |
| South American plant | 14 answers |
| Cactus | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CEREUS (5)
Two Japanese yard-boys were trimming hibiscus, a third was engaged expertly with the long hedge of night-blooming cereus that was shortly expectant of unfolding in its mysterious night-bloom.
From the latter plant the natives make the pulque, mezcal and agua-diente; and the petahaya or cereus, produces a fruit from which is made a very pleasant preserve.
Presently there was a noise of opening windows, and the nocturnal head-dresses of Rockland flowered out of them like so many developments of the Nightblooming Cereus.
The cases given in the eleventh chapter on the changes which occurred during growth in crossed plants of Tropæolum, Cereus, Datura, and Lathyrus are all analogous.
Cactus; Cereus Peruviana During my stay here I thoroughly enjoyed scrambling about these huge mountains.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1986–1997).