Crossword-Solution: CENTAURIUM
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| HERBACEOUS plant with leaves in opposite pairs | 5 answers |
| HERBACEOUS plant (genus) | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with CENTAURIUM (5)
Peruvian bark, wormwoods, artemisia maritima, artemisia absynthium, worm-seed, artemisia santonicum, chamomile, anthemis nobilis, tansey tanacetum, bogbean, menyanthes trifoliata, centaury, gentiana centaurium, gentian, gentiana lutea, artichoke-leaves, cynara scolymus, hop, humulus lupulus.
The name is usually given to the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
There are sixteen endemic varieties of British species, viz.-- _Eleven_ of more or less variable species, Caltha palustris, _var._ RADICANS; Polygala vulgaris, _var._ GRANDIFLORA; Cerastium arcticum, _var._ EDMONSTONII; Trifolium repens, _var._ TOWNSENDII; Rosa involuta, _var._ WILSONI; Rubus fruticosus, _sub-sp._ LONGITHYRSIGER; Campanula rotundifolia, _var._ SPECIOSA; Erythræa centaurium, _sub-sp._ LATIFOLIA; Carex involuta, (? Hyb.); Carex vesicaria, _var._ GRAHAMI; Deyeuxia neglecta, _var._ HOOKERI.
CENTAURY (_Erythraea Centaurium_, natural order Gentianaceae), an annual herb with erect, smooth stem, usually branched above, and a terminal inflorescence with numerous small red or pink regular flowers with a funnel-shaped corolla.
Thus, that familiar weed, the common centaury (_Erythræa centaurium_), may vary in height--according to the soil and other external conditions--from half an inch to five feet.