Crossword-Solution: ELECAMPANE 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Elecampane n. A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite
yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a
tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.
Elecampane n. A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.

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Coarse herb of Europe 1 answer
a composite plant formerly much cultivated for its medicinal root 1 answer
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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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Doctor Harmon arose and followed him to the gold garden, and together they stood beside the molten hedge of sunflowers, coneflowers, elecampane, and jewel flower.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1995
Some, too, there are which justly are supposed To be nor smooth nor altogether hooked, With bended barbs, but slightly angled-out, To tickle rather than to wound the sense-- And of which sort is the salt tartar of wine And flavours of the gummed elecampane.
Of The Nature of Things [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius 1997
The Governor employed a number of the simples dear to ancient women, --elecampane and elder and wormwood and anise and the rest; but he also employed certain mineral remedies, which he almost always indicates by their ancient symbols, or by a name which should leave them a mystery to the vulgar.
Medical Essays Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2006
The stout stalks of elecampane with their large leaves and yellowish brown flowers were seen, and numerous small plants peeped from among their rich setting of vines and mosses.
See America First Orville O. Hiestand 2002
Elecampane stands up tall and straight as if conscious of having been mentioned by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, more than two thousand years ago, as being an important stimulant to the brain and stomach.
See America First Orville O. Hiestand 2002
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).