Crossword-Solution: PYROPHORUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pyrophorus | n. | Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PYROPHORUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| any substance capable of igniting spontaneously on exposure to air | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American beetle | 2 answers |
| SOUTH American click-beetle | 2 answers |
| click beetle | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with PYROPHORUS (5)
When we were at Bahia, an elater or beetle (Pyrophorus luminosus, Illig.) seemed the most common luminous insect.
About the habits of Pyrophorus, the large tropical firefly which has the seat of its luminosity on the upper surface of the thorax, nothing definite appears to be known; but it has been said that this instinct is altogether nocturnal.
This is the only method that I am aware of for procuring fire by friction in Burma, but on the hills and out of the way parts, that philosophical toy, the "pyrophorus," is still in use.
Pyrophorus, when enclosed in a bottle or deprived of contact with the air, can not take fire by itself, but it burns as soon as exposed to the air.
One of the most abundant--and of much larger dimensions than the rest of the elaters or beetles--pyrophorus noctilucus, called by the natives cocuja, displays both red and green light.