Crossword-Solution: AMADOU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amadou | n. | A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “AMADOU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Spongy substance used as tinder | 1 answer |
| spongy substance made from fungi | 1 answer |
| ___ Diallo, subject of a high-profile New York City murder case | 1 answer |
| ___ & Mariam (musical duo) | 1 answer |
| Touchwood used as punk. | 1 answer |
| Substance used to ignite firework fuses | 1 answer |
| Spongy substance from fungi | 1 answer |
| Spongy substance | 1 answer |
| SPONGY substance used as timber | 1 answer |
| Punk for lighting | 1 answer |
| German tinder. | 1 answer |
| Controversial first name in NYC | 1 answer |
| Cause celebre Diallo | 1 answer |
| Tinder | 2 answers |
| Touchwood | 4 answers |
| inflammable substance | 6 answers |
| Punk | 9 answers |
| A FIREWORK OR PYROTECHNIC DEVICE WHICH HAS FAILED TO IGNITE BECAUSE OF DAMPNESS | 10 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with AMADOU (5)
This native tobacco had little in common with the fine qualities of our present manufacturers; but Torres was not more difficult to please in this matter than in others, and so, having filled his pipe, he struck a match and applied the flame to a piece of that stick substance which is the secretion of certain of the hymenoptera, and is known as “ants’ amadou.” With the amadou he lighted up, and after about a dozen whiffs his eyes closed, his pipe escaped from his fingers, and he fell asleep.
They said to the King, "we are sent by the Chief of Yaour to let you know that the white men went away, without giving you or him (the Chief) any thing; they have a great many things with them, and we have received nothing from them; and this Amadou fatouma now before you is a bad man, and has likewise made a fool of you both." The king immediately ordered me to be put in irons; which was accordingly done, and every thing I had taken from me; some were for killing me, and some for preserving my life.
Park or his effects; the relations of several travellers who had passed the same country, agreeing with Amadou's Journal; being certain of the truth of what he had said, and of the dangers I should have run to no purpose in such a distant part; all these reasons induced me to proceed no farther.
Besides the uses of fungi as scavengers of creation, there are some which have a commercial value and yield an article called “amadou.” This is a French word, used for a sort of tinder or touch-wood, an inflammable substance which is prepared from a fungus,[1] Boletus igniarius, and grows upon the cherry, ash and other trees.
From the Oak Agaric, "touchwood," or "spunk,"--when cut into thin slices and beaten with a hammer until soft,--is made "Amadou," or German tinder.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Slate, TIME, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).