Crossword-Solution: SILKWEED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Silkweed | n. | Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN border plant | 1 answer |
| Latex-producing herb | 1 answer |
| NORTH American border plant | 1 answer |
| North American plant | 25 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
ZACEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SILKWEED (5)
Yet evidently it is not the perfume of any flower that attracts the bees; they pay no attention to the sweet-scented lilac, or to heliotrope, but work upon sumach, silkweed, and the hateful snapdragon.
The silkweed, the skull-cap, catnip, boneset, the peppermint, wild ginger, wintergreen, and scores of other plants, all gladly offered their roots, their berries, or their leaves.
Their lines were made of the tough, fibrous, silken bark of the variety of milkweed or silkweed, already mentioned.
Silkweed (_Asclepias Cornuti_) is also another honey-yielding perennial, but a singular fatality attends many bees while gathering it, that I never yet saw noticed.
They are jolly little fellows, and they will allow you to stay, and teach you to spin; for they spin all winter, and make lovely cloth for the elves out of silkweed and thistle-down.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).