Crossword-Solution: LATHYRUS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| genus of climbing plant | 1 answer |
| Bitter vetch | 2 answers |
| LEGUMINOUS plant | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
ACR
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Sentences with LATHYRUS (5)
Darwin showed that Pisum sativum and Lathyrus odoratus belong to plants in which self-pollination is regularly effected, and that this accounts for the constancy of certain sorts of these plants, while a variety of form is produced by crossing.
The spiral contraction of tendrils is quite independent of their power of spontaneously revolving, for it occurs in tendrils, such as those of _Lathyrus grandiflorus_ and _Ampelopsis hederacea_, which do not revolve.
See "Variation under Domestication," Edition II., Volume II., page 68; but the explanation there given for Pisum may probably apply to Lathyrus.), bee-orchis, and perhaps hollyhocks are, at present, my greatest difficulties; and I find I cannot experimentise by castrating sweet-peas, without doing fatal injury.
Under Lathyrus nissolia it would [be] better to refer to my hypothetical explanation of the grass-like leaves than to nothing.
Can you or any of your colleagues think of any such plant? It is indirectly on this account that I so much want the seeds of Lathyrus nissolia.