Crossword-Solution: AGROSTEMMA
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| a European caryophyllaceous plant, aka corncockle | 1 answer |
| CORNFIELD-growing plant | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AGROSTEMMA (5)
Cockle: A weed, the “Agrostemma githago” of Linnaeus; perhaps named from the Anglo-Saxon, “ceocan,” because it chokes the corn.
CORN COCKLE (_Agrostemma githago_).—The beautiful purple blossoms, set in long graceful calyxes, adorn the paths through wheat and barley fields everywhere.
Instances may be cited of the white varieties of the snapdragon, of the red clover, the long-spurred violet (_Viola_ [282] _cornuta_) the sea-shore aster (_Aster Tripolium_), corn-rose (_Agrostemma Githago_), the Sweet William (_Silene Armeria_), and many garden flowers, as for instance, the _Clarkia pulchella_, the _Polemonium coeruleum_, the _Veronica longifolia_, the gloxinias and others.
The garden however affords good radishes, mustard and horse radish, and especially leeks, chives, winter cresses, columbines, goose-tongue (_Achillea Ptarmica_), rose-campion (_Agrostemma coronaria_), scurvy-grass, currants, gooseberries, barberry-berries, wild rose, and lovage (_Ligusticum Levisticum_), though scarcely cherries, apples or plums.
The number of biennials is not large, but a few very desirable garden plants, such as the following, occur amongst them:-- _Agrostemma coronaria_ (Rose Campion): hardy, 1½ ft., bright rose-purple or rose and white.