Crossword-Solution: MIDRIB
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Midrib | n. | A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “MIDRIB”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Central leaf part | 1 answer |
| Central vein of a leaf | 1 answer |
| LEAF, central vein of | 1 answer |
| Leaf bisector | 1 answer |
| Leaf's central vein | 1 answer |
| Main vein in a leaf | 1 answer |
| Vein in the center of a leaf | 1 answer |
| What a leafstalk leads to | 1 answer |
| leaf vein Central | 1 answer |
| Leaf vein | 2 answers |
| Main vein | 3 answers |
| part Leaf | 5 answers |
| Bisector Leaf | 10 answers |
| leaf part | 22 answers |
| Vein | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MIDRIB (5)
After they have fallen off, the blade on each side of the midrib often becomes curled up while drying, sometimes along the whole length, sometimes chiefly at the base, sometimes towards the apex.
Between these two points there runs a dark curved line exactly representing the midrib of a leaf, and from this radiate on each side a few oblique marks which well imitate the lateral veins.
About six of the innermost of these plumes on each side have the midrib elongated into slender black wires, which bend at right angles, and curve somewhat backwards to a length of about ten inches, forming one of those extraordinary and fantastic ornaments with which this group of birds abounds.
After writing to you, I looked at vessels of ovary of a sweet-pea, and from this and other cases I believe that in the ovary the midrib vessel alone gives homologies, and that the vessels on the edge of the carpel leaf often run into the wrong bundle, just like those on the sides of the sepals.
Hence I [suppose] in Crucifers that the ovarium consists of two pistils; AA [Figure 12] being the midrib vessels, and BB being those formed of the vessels on edges of the two carpels, run together, and going to wrong bundles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1979–2022).