Crossword-Solution: CECROPIA
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| MULBERRY tree (genus) | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN tropical shrub/tree | 20 answers |
| West Indies plant | 27 answers |
| AMERICAN tropical plant | 31 answers |
| BUTTERFLY, type of | 41 answers |
| AMERICAN shrub/tree | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CECROPIA (5)
The Mariposa Lily, on the other hand, is a poppy-shaped flower varying from white to purple, and with each petal decorated by an "eye" exactly like those on the great Cecropia or Polyphemus moths, so that their effect is that of a flock of gorgeous butterflies come to rest.
Next came Zetes and Calais, sons of Boreas, whom once Oreithyia, daughter of Erechtheus, bare to Boreas on the verge of wintry Thrace; thither it was that Thracian Boreas snatched her away from Cecropia as she was whirling in the dance, hard by Hissus’ stream.
The island was wooded chiefly with the trumpet tree (Cecropia peltata), which has a hollow stem and smooth pale bark.
Wherever the land was lower than the flood height of the Amazons, Cecropia trees prevailed, sometimes scattered over meadows of tall broad-leaved grasses, which surrounded shallow pools swarming with water-fowl.
This acacia likewise produces, as an additional attraction to ants, small bodies containing much oil and protoplasm, and analogous bodies are developed by a Cecropia for the same purpose, as described by Fritz Muller.