Crossword-Solution: LUPINE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lupine | n. | A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California. |
| Lupine | n. | Wolfish; ravenous. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LUPINE | anagram | LINEUP, PINULE, UNPILE |
We have 30 clues for the answer “LUPINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of or relating to or characteristic of wolves | 1 answer |
| Wolf-like | 1 answer |
| Spiky flower popular with butterflies | 1 answer |
| Relating to wolves | 1 answer |
| Of the wolf | 1 answer |
| Like wolves | 1 answer |
| Like werewolves | 1 answer |
| Like a wolf | 1 answer |
| Like "The Three Little Pigs" baddie | 1 answer |
| It may have blue, pink, or white flowers | 1 answer |
| Flowering plant of pea family. | 1 answer |
| Flower like the bluebonnet of Texas. | 1 answer |
| Light, purplish blue | 2 answers |
| Like a werewolf | 3 answers |
| Tall flower | 3 answers |
| Blue wildflower | 3 answers |
| Bluebonnet. | 4 answers |
| plant flowering | 4 answers |
| WILDFLOWER | 6 answers |
| ANY PLANT OF THE GENUS LUPINUS | 11 answers |
| Ravenous | 14 answers |
| Wolfish | 17 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Garden flower | 36 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| Flowering plant. | 37 answers |
| Garden plant. | 53 answers |
| FLOWER variety | 70 answers |
| Fierce. | 78 answers |
| Savage | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LUPINE (5)
Part of the charm of the lupine is the continual stir of its plumes to airs not suspected otherwhere.
The valley--in some remote epoch an arm of the San Francisco Bay--every rainy season seemed to be trying to revert to its original condition, and, long after the early spring had laid on its liberal color in strips, bands, and patches of blue and yellow, the blossoms of mustard and lupine glistened like wet paint.
One afternoon she thought the long sad waste before her window had caught some tint of gayer color from the sunset; a week later she found it a blazing landscape of poppies, broken here and there by blue lagoons of lupine, by pools of daisies, by banks of dog-roses, by broad outlying shores of dandelions that scattered their lavish gold to the foot of the hills, where the green billows of wild oats carried it on and upwards to the darker crest of pines.
Swale, of Christchurch, in New Zealand, informs me ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ 1858 page 828, that the garden varieties of the lupine are not there visited by any bees, and that they seed less freely than any other introduced leguminous plant, with the exception of red clover.
Poppies and lupine and many others are the flower tradition of California but they are not what I mean here.
Quotes with LUPINE (3)
Can I join you at lunch?" She paused. "You have every other day." He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day." "What makes you think I won't resent it today?" "Hope. It's what I live on...
I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.
Roses climbed the shed, entwined with dark purple clematis, leaves as glossy as satin. There were no thorns. Patience's cupboard was overflowing with remedies, and the little barn was often crowded with seekers. The half acre of meadow was wild with cosmos and lupine, coreopsis, and sweet William. Basil, thyme, coriander, and broad leaf parsley grew in billowing clouds of green; the smell so fresh your mouth watered and you began to plan the next meal. Cucumbers spilled out o…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).