Crossword-Solution: RINGENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ringent | a. | Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RINGENT | anagram | RENTING, RINGNET, TENRING |
We have 2 clues for the answer “RINGENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gaping, as a corolla. | 1 answer |
| gaping | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with RINGENT (5)
The whorls of bloom issue from half-globular arrangements of buds and persistent calyces; each flower is an inch long; corolla ringent, or gaping; helmet, or upper division, linear; the seed organs are longer; the calyx tubular, having five minute teeth, being striped and grooved; the whole head, or whorl, is supported by a leafy bract, the leaflets being of a pale green colour, tinted with red.
Flower of a Campanula or Harebell, with a campanulate or bell-shaped corolla; 255, of a Phlox, with salver-shaped corolla; 256, of Dead Nettle (Lamium), with labiate _ringent_ (or gaping) corolla; 257, of Snapdragon, with labiate _personate_ corolla; 258, of Toad-Flax, with a similar corolla spurred at the base.] _Funnel-shaped_, or _Funnelform_; gradually spreading at the summit of a tube which is narrow below, in the shape of a funnel or tunnel, as in the corolla of the common Morning Glory (Fig.
Two forms of the labiate corolla have been designated, viz.:-- _Ringent_ or _Gaping_, when the orifice is wide open, as in Fig.
When the upper lip of a labiate corolla is much arched, and the lips separated by a distinct gap, it is called _ringent_ (fig.
Corolla tubular, more or less 2-lipped, ringent, persistent and withering; upper lip entire or 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1964).