Crossword-Solution: HIBISCUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hibiscus | n. | A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “HIBISCUS”
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| tropical plant with large brightly coloured flowers | 1 answer |
| kenaf | 1 answer |
| genus of flowering plants in the mallow family | 1 answer |
| The yellow one is Hawaii's state flower | 1 answer |
| Plant of the mallow family | 1 answer |
| Plant of mallow family | 1 answer |
| Tropical flower often used for herbal tea | 1 answer |
| China rose, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Eggsotic bloom | 1 answer |
| Flower used in herbal teas | 1 answer |
| Hawaii's flower | 1 answer |
| Orlando bloom | 1 answer |
| Hawaiian state flower | 1 answer |
| Lei blossoms. | 1 answer |
| Hawaii's state flower | 2 answers |
| Hula dancer's accessory | 2 answers |
| Flowery shrub | 4 answers |
| mallow plant | 4 answers |
| Tropical flower | 5 answers |
| Showy shrub | 6 answers |
| Tropical shrub | 12 answers |
| Showy flower | 30 answers |
| shrub | 43 answers |
| tropical plant | 79 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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Sentences with HIBISCUS (5)
See Musk.] (Bot.) An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus Ð formerly AbelmoschusÐmoschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; Ð sometimes called musk mallow.
She was dressed and scented; her kilt was of fine tapa, looking richer in the folds than any silk; her bust, which was of the colour of dark honey, she wore bare only for some half a dozen necklaces of seeds and flowers; and behind her ears and in her hair she had the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus.
Great ropes of wild vine twined like the snake of the laocoon from tree to tree, and all sorts of wonderful flowers, from the orchid shaped like a butterfly to the scarlet hibiscus, made beautiful the gloom.
The rest may die--but is there not Some shining strange escape for me Who sought in Beauty the bright wine Of immortality? In a Cuban Garden Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire, (Love me, my lover, life will not stay) The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind, A scarlet leaf is blowing away.
The hibiscus, the aloe tree, and a number of small shrubs had found place, but seemed only to intensify its stark loneliness.
Quotes with HIBISCUS (3)
The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.
The picture enclosed here is of a hibiscus that has been flowering in the parlor window one bloom at a time for what seems like a year or more. It’s getting to where I don’t remember when there wasn’t a bud or two and a flower either out or on the way. This morning there is a fresh new flower just like the one in the picture, but right next to it is the one that was new yesterday and is already spent. I don’t know whether to be happy for the beautiful one or sad for the one t…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1966–2016).