Crossword-Solution: FIREWEED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fireweed | n. | An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned. |
| Fireweed | n. | The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum). |
We have 5 clues for the answer “FIREWEED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Growth in a recently burned clearing | 1 answer |
| Growth in recently burned clearings | 1 answer |
| an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers | 1 answer |
| any of various plants that appear as first vegetation in burnt-over areas, esp rosebay willowherb | 1 answer |
| CLEARINGS | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FIREWEED (5)
Summer insects danced on the air, and a flock of white butterflies fanned the mobile tips of the crimson fireweed.
Fireweed flames about them against the gray boulders; streams are open, go smoothly about the glacier slips and make deep bluish pools for trout.
Through this rolling gravelly plain, sparsely wooded and glowing with the tall magenta bloom of the fireweed, we drove toward the mountains, until the road went to seed and we could follow it no longer.
Fortunately, the train was still going at a comparatively slow speed; fortunately also, Rilla retained enough sense to jump the way it was going; nevertheless, she fell and sprawled helplessly down the embankment, landing in a ditch full of a rank growth of golden-rod and fireweed.
Frazer, "call this plant Neglected everlasting, because it grows on dry wastes by road-sides, among thistles and fireweed; but I love it for its sweetness; it is like a true friend-- it never changes.
Quotes with FIREWEED (1)
I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles of air that made songs in the throats of hermit thrushes and gave voices to humpback whales, the same particles of air that lifted the wings of bald eagles and buzzed in the flight of hummingbirds, the same particles of air that rushed over the sea in storms, whirled…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2006).