Crossword-Solution: PYRENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pyrene | n. | One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10. |
| Pyrene | n. | Same as Pyrena. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PYRENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A peach stone, botanically speaking. | 1 answer |
| Seed of pears, apples, etc. | 1 answer |
| Seed or stone of a fruit. | 1 answer |
| solid polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon extracted from coal tar | 1 answer |
| FRUIT pit | 4 answers |
| Fruit stone | 7 answers |
| lover of Ares | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PYRENE (5)
She took an anti-pyrene powder from a box in her dressing-table, threw off all her clothes, swathed herself in a long robe of pale-blue silk.
For the Ister, beginning from the Celts, and the city of Pyrene, divides Europe in its course; but the Celts are beyond the pillars of Hercules, and border on the territories of the Cynesians, who lie in the extremity of Europe to the westward; and the Ister terminates by flowing through all Europe into the Euxine Sea, where a Milesian colony is settled in Istria.
For this purpose, leaving Hanno with a sufficient force to guard his conquests in Spain, he crossed the Pyrene'an mountains into Gaul, with an army of fifty thousand foot, and nine thousand horse.
There was a Pyrene among the Alpes [647]Tridentini, and at the foot of it a city of the same [648]name; which one would infer to have been so denominated from the like circumstance.
Beatus Rhenanus, in his account of these parts, says, that there was a tradition of this mountain Pyrene once[650] burning: and, conformably to this notion, it is still distinguished by the name of the great [651]Brenner.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1967).