Crossword-Solution: CANOS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

They crowd together particularly in the Canos, and we may say of them, what Abdallatif says of the crocodiles of the Nile,* "that they swarm like worms in the shallow waters of the river, and in the shelter of uninhabited islands." (* Description de l'Egypte translated by De Sacy.) On the 6th of April, whilst continuing to ascend the Orinoco, first southward and then to south-west, we perceived the southern side of the Serrania, or chain of the mountains of Encaramada.

Tertii verso quater orbe lustri, Quid theatrales tibi, Crispe, pompae? Quam decet canos male literates Sera voluptas! Tene mulceri fidibus canoris? Tene cantorum modulis stupere? Tene per pictas, oculo elegante, Currere formas? Inter aequales, sine felle liber, Codices veri studiosus inter Rectius vives.

Non semper idem floribus est honor Vernis, neque uno luna rubens nitet 10 Voltu: quid aeternis minorem Consiliis animum fatigas? Cur non sub alta vel platano vel hac Pinu iacentes sic temere et rosa Canos odorati capillos, 15 Dum licet, Assyriaque nardo Potamus uncti? Dissipat Euhius Curas edacis.

They have suggested the name of the genus "senecio," from the Latin _senex_, an old man:-- "Quod canis simili videatur flore capillis; Cura facit canos quamvis vir non habet annos." "With venerable locks the Groundsel grows; Hard care more quick than years white head-gear shows." In the fifteenth century this herb went by the name of Grondeswyle, from _grund_, ground, and _swelgun_, to swallow, and to this day it is called in Scotland Grundy Swallow, or Ground Glutton.

Illius egregias virtutes claraque facta Saepe fatebuntur gnatorum in funere matres, Cum in cinerem canos solvent a vertice crines 350 Putridaque infirmis variabunt pectora palmis.