Crossword-Solution: MATICO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Matico | n. | A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MATICO | anagram | ATOMIC |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MATICO”
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| Peruvian shrub. | 1 answer |
| Piper elongat | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MATICO (5)
The powdered leaves of the _Eupatorium glutinosum_, under the name of Matico, are used about Quito for stanching blood and healing wounds.
Martin, that, like the gunjah, which the East Indians prepare, from the _Cannabis Indica_, the leaves and flowers of the matico have been long employed by the sensual Indians of the interior of Peru to prepare a drink which they administer to produce a state of aphrodisia.
ARTANTHE ELONGATA.--A plant of the pepper family, which furnishes one of the articles known by the Peruvians as Matico, and which is used by them for the same purposes as cubebs; but its chief value is as a styptic, an effect probably produced by its rough under surface, acting mechanically like lint.
Other examples are dithionates of lead (PbS2O6.4H2O), calcium and strontium, and of potassium (K2S2O6), benzil, matico-stearoptene.
Compound; INFUSUM MATICONIS COMPOSITUM, L.——Watmough.) Matico and senna, of each 2 dr.; boiling water, 1 pint.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).