Crossword-Solution: FUMITORY
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| Fumitory | n. | The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic. |
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| ANTISCORBUTIC | 1 answer |
| chiefly European plant with spurred flowers, formerly used medicinally | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VIDENI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with FUMITORY (5)
She had washed herself that day in a woodland stream which they had crossed on the road, and had arrayed her garments as trimly as she might, and had plucked some fumitory, wherewith she had made a garland for her head.
FUMITORY (_Fumaria officinalis_).—The pretty purple blossoms and graceful bluish foliage often spring up in gardens where they are treated as weeds.
Along the sandy shores the ever-present plants are mostly English, as Dock, a _Nasturtium, Ranunculus sceleratus, Fumitory, Juncus bufonius,_, Common Vervain, _Gnaphalium luteo-album,_ and very frequently _Veronica Anagallise._ On the alluvium grow the same, mixed with Tamarisk, _Acacia Arabica,_ and a few other bushes.
The climbing fumitory comes up of itself from seed every year, and is now running over bushes, stakes, and strings, and is full of fern-like leaves and flesh-colored flowers.
Coles asserts "the swallow cureth her dim eyes with Celandine." FUMITORY FAMILY _(Fumariaceae)_ Dutchman's Breeches; White Hearts; Soldier's Cap; Ear-drops _Dicentra Cucullaria_ _Flowers_--White, tipped with yellow, nodding in a 1-sided raceme.