Crossword-Solution: SCABIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scabious | a. | Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions. |
| Scabious | a. | Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SCABIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BLUE pincushion-shaped flowering plant | 1 answer |
| plant with showy blue, red, or whitish dome-shaped flower heads | 1 answer |
| WHITE pincushion-shaped flowering plant | 1 answer |
| SCABIOSA herba | 1 answer |
| Plant of the teasel family | 1 answer |
| Pincushion flower | 1 answer |
| PINK pincushion-shaped flowering plant | 1 answer |
| PINCUSHION-shaped flowering plant | 1 answer |
| HERB used for itch | 1 answer |
| GIPSY rose | 1 answer |
| AFFECTED with the itch | 2 answers |
| AFFECTED with itch | 2 answers |
| GYPSY rose | 2 answers |
| WHITE flowered herb | 3 answers |
| Scabby | 6 answers |
| Wild flower. | 7 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| CULTIVATED plant | 23 answers |
| BLUE-flowered plant | 23 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.
Hint 2 anagram
AECEZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCABIOUS (5)
The sheep knew where their fold was, so Young Jim came back to his master, and they all four strolled home, the scabious-heads swishing about their ankles, and their shadows streaking behind them like the shadows of giants.
Paul sowed with a careful hand the European seeds, particularly the violet and the scabious, the flowers of which seemed to bear some analogy to the character and present situation of Virginia, by whom they had been so especially recommended; but either they were dried up in the voyage, or the climate of this part of the world is unfavourable to their growth, for a very small number of them even came up, and not one arrived at full perfection.
Some plants, which had put forth all their blossoms in July, began to look yellow and dying, and the violet scabious by the wayside bloomed for the second time, smaller now, and longer-stalked; the last days of August drew nigh, and the first return-ship from Iceland hove in sight one evening at the cape of Pors-Even.
How beautifully green this pasture looks! and how finely the evening sun glances between the boles of that clump of trees, beech, and ash, and aspen! and how sweet the hedgerows are with woodbine and wild scabious, or, as the country people call it, the gipsy-rose! Here is little Dolly Weston, the unconscious witness, with cheeks as red as a real rose, tottering up the path to meet her father.
Only Hal from time to time gathered a flower for the young lady, scabious and globe flowers, and once a very pink wild rose, mingled with white ones.
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Appears in: S&S.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).