Crossword-Solution: CEROXYLON
We have 5 clues for the answer “CEROXYLON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANDES palm | 1 answer |
| ANDES tree | 1 answer |
| wax-palm | 3 answers |
| AMERICAN palm tree | 5 answers |
| Palm | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CEROXYLON (5)
The cucurito, the pirijao, the fruit of which resembles the apricot, the Oreodoxa regia or palma real of the island of Cuba, and the ceroxylon of the high Andes, are the most majestic of all the palm-trees we saw in the New World.
CEROXYLON ANDICOLA.--The wax palm of New Grenada, first described by Humboldt and Bonpland, who found it on elevated mountains, extending as high as the lower limit of perpetual snow.
One of the loftiest and most beautiful of the palm-trees--_the wax-palm (Ceroxylon Andicola_)--grew in these very parts, for the lower slopes of the Andes are its favourite habitat.
Friction matches are made from the vegetable wax extracted from the _Ceroxylon_ palm, and are generally used throughout the interior.
The following genera are among those most commonly cultivated: Acanthophoenix Chamaerops Martinezia Acanthorhiza Cocos Oreodoxa Areca Corypha Phoenix Bactris Geonoma Pritchardia Brahea Hyophorbe Rhapis Calamus Kentia Sabal Caryota Latania Stevensonia Ceroxylon Livistonia Thrinax Chamaedorea FERNS.--These popular plants are usually increased by means of their spores, the "dust" produced on the back of their fronds.