Crossword-Solution: ALTHAEA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Althaea | n. | Alt. of Althea |
We have 11 clues for the answer “ALTHAEA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DEIANIRA, mother of | 1 answer |
| Lovelace wrote to her from prison. | 1 answer |
| MELEAGER, mother of | 1 answer |
| Mother of Meleager. | 1 answer |
| OENEUS, wife of | 1 answer |
| Marshmallow | 2 answers |
| hollyhock | 3 answers |
| lover of Ares | 21 answers |
| type of plant | 32 answers |
| EUROPEAN herb/herbaceous plant | 38 answers |
| European plant | 51 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
MZCEAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ALTHAEA (5)
And these others (Althaea) bare to Oeneus, Porthaon’s son; horse-taming Pheres, and Agelaus surpassing all others, Toxeus and Clymenus and godlike Periphas, and rich-haired Gorga and wise Deianeira, who was subject in love to mighty Heracles and bare him Hyllus and Glenus and Ctesippus and Odites.
Methinks the realms of England, France, and Ireland Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood As did the fatal brand Althaea burnt Unto the prince’s heart of Calydon.
Althaea, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing "the house of Thestius," her father.
She sent ambassadors, a chosen band, Priests of the gods, and elders of the land; Besought the chief to save the sinking state: Their prayers were urgent, and their proffers great: (Full fifty acres of the richest ground, Half pasture green, and half with vineyards crown’d:) His suppliant father, aged Œneus, came; His sisters follow’d; even the vengeful dame, Althaea, sues; his friends before him fall: He stands relentless, and rejects them all.
Double varieties of poppies, liverleaf (Hepatica), wallflowers (_Cheiranthus_), violets, _Caltha_, _Althaea_, _Colchicum_, and periwinkles (_Vinca_), and a great many other common flowers were already in cultivation at that time.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–1965).