Crossword-Solution: OXALIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oxalis | n. | A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OXALIS | anagram | LOXIAS |
We have 17 clues for the answer “OXALIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plant sometimes called a false shamrock | 1 answer |
| Word sorrel | 1 answer |
| Wooded plant that's often confused for four-leaf clover | 1 answer |
| Wood sorrel, used as a window plant. | 1 answer |
| Wood sorrel genus | 1 answer |
| Weed also known as wood sorrel | 1 answer |
| Shamrock-like flower often found as a weed | 1 answer |
| Plant with cloverlike leaves. | 1 answer |
| Plant found in damp woods | 1 answer |
| Flower sometimes called "false shamrock" | 1 answer |
| Sorrel Cold dish | 2 answers |
| Wood sorrel or related plant | 2 answers |
| Wood sorrel | 3 answers |
| OCA | 4 answers |
| sorrel | 6 answers |
| TRIFOLIATE-leafed plant | 8 answers |
| Wood Actress | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OXALIS (5)
Morren found in several species of Oxalis that the leaves and their foot-stalks moved, especially after exposure to a hot sun, when they were gently and repeatedly touched, or when the plant was shaken.
But we have killed or badly injured a multitude of plants: N.B.--Oxalis carnosa was most valuable, but last night was killed." His letters of this period do not give any connected account of the progress of the work.
Have you seeds of Oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books? By the way, what a fault it is in Henslow's "Botany" that he gives hardly any references; he alludes to great series of experiments on absorption of poison by roots, but where to find them I cannot guess.
With respect to the protrusion of pollen-tubes, you might like to hear (if you do not already know the fact) that, as I saw this summer, in the little imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis, which never open, the pollen-tubes always come out of the pollen-grain, whilst still in the anthers, and direct themselves in a beautiful manner to the stigma seated at some little distance.
Very many thanks for seeds of Oxalis: how I wish I had more strength and time to carry on these experiments, but when I write in the morning, I have hardly heart to do anything in the afternoon.
Quotes with OXALIS (1)
After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Onion, Slate, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).