Crossword-Solution: MANGROVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mangrove | n. | The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant. |
| Mangrove | n. | The mango fish. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MANGROVE | anagram | VENOGRAM |
We have 19 clues for the answer “MANGROVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MUDFLATS tree | 1 answer |
| Tropical tree with roots above ground | 1 answer |
| tropical tree with exposed roots, which grows beside water | 1 answer |
| sub-tropical tree | 1 answer |
| Tropical tree growing in swamps. | 1 answer |
| Tree growing on tropical coasts and in muddy swamps | 1 answer |
| Swamp shrub. | 1 answer |
| Swamp plant with many roots | 1 answer |
| OYSTER tree | 1 answer |
| Marsh tree with interlacing roots | 1 answer |
| Everglades tree | 1 answer |
| Everglades evergreen | 1 answer |
| Tropical forest | 6 answers |
| Swamp tree | 7 answers |
| DECORATION CONSISTING OF AN OPEN PATTERN OF INTERLACING RIBS | 11 answers |
| Tropical shrub | 12 answers |
| SWAMP plant | 17 answers |
| Tropical tree | 70 answers |
| Fruit. | 100 answers |
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Sentences with MANGROVE (5)
Thence through the mangrove swamp, among the black mud and the green mangroves, and the black and scarlet crabs, to Mulinuu, to the doctor’s, where I had an errand, and so to the inn to breakfast about nine.
During their convalescence, I amused myself by shooting alligators in the mangrove swamps at Holland Bay, which was within half an hour’s ride of the bungalow.
Van Wyk’s thoughts followed the Sofala down the river, winding about through the belt of the coast forest, between the buttressed shafts of the big trees, through the mangrove strip, and over the bar.
His nose went up in the air and quested to windward along the wind that brought the message, and he read the air with his nose as a man might read a newspaper--the salt smells of the seashore and of the dank muck of mangrove swamps at low tide, the spicy fragrances of tropic vegetation, and the faint, most faint, acrid tingle of smoke from smudgy fires.
She or her sailors dynamited fish daily, while the Balesuna natives were paid tobacco for bringing in oysters from the mangrove swamps.
Quotes with MANGROVE (3)
We met at the blue lagoon on the even of a full moon. Dancing wild like those gypsy girls, with their messy hair and glittering eyes. We made magic behind the mangrove trees and ended up with bruised knees, as the sound of the win and the waves serenaded us late into the sweet bohemian night.
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.
the mangrove killfish, lives in South American and southern US coastal swamps that can either dry up or become so toxic that the fish has to find refuge in the mud or by flipping and jumping across land. Amazingly, its skin and gills change so the killfish can breathe air and survive out of the water for as long as ten weeks.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1954–2020).