Crossword-Solution: MELIANTHUS
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VIINDE
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with MELIANTHUS (3)
Signor Licopoli met with a similar substitution of anthers for bracts in _Melianthus major_.[315] =Staminody of the sepals and petals.=--In the first named this is of very rare occurrence.
Gaetano Licopoli places on record an instance where the petals and carpels of _Melianthus major_ were suppressed.[485] On the whole, the pistil seems less subject to changes of this character than the androecium.
The _Melianthus minor_ grows to the height of three, four, or five feet; its stem, which is shrubby, during the flowering season is apt to exhibit a naked appearance, having fewer leaves on it at that period, and those not of their full size; but this, perhaps, may in some degree be owing to the plant's being placed at the back of others.