Crossword-Solution: COMPOSITAE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Compositae | n. pl. | A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. |
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| African marigold | 2 answers |
| taraxacum | 2 answers |
| ANTHEMIS | 2 answers |
| COMPASS plant (family) | 2 answers |
| asteraceae | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with COMPOSITAE (5)
Where springs gush from the rocks there are willow thickets, grassy flats, and bright, flowery gardens, and in the hottest recesses the delicate abronia, mesquite, woody compositae, and arborescent cactuses.
The largest bush in the island (belonging to the family of Compositae) is scarcely so tall as our gorse.
This fact will, perhaps, be rendered even more striking, by giving a few illustrations:--thus, Scalesia, a remarkable arborescent genus of the Compositae, is confined to the archipelago: it has six species: one from Chatham, one from Albemarle, one from Charles Island, two from James Island, and the sixth from one of the three latter islands, but it is not known from which: not one of these six species grows on any two islands.
Light seeds, especially those of the order of Compositae, have aeronautic apparatus--tufts, plumes, fly-wheels--which keep them up in the air and enable them to take distant voyages.
Abundance of a tasteless raspberry, with blue and yellow compositae, have somewhat of a temperate aspect; and minute ferns and Orchideae, with dwarf Begonias on the rocks, make some approach to a sub-alpine vegetation.