Crossword-Solution: CUSCUTA
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| LEAFLESS plant | 4 answers |
| parasitic plant | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with CUSCUTA (5)
VALKERIA CUSCUTA; (_a_) natural size; (_b_) two tentacles; (_c_) tentacles bent inwards; (_d_) enlarged, showing the gradual eversion of the animal.
Dodders (_Cuscuta_) covered even tall trees with a golden web, and the _Capparis acuminata_ was in full flower along the road side.
Three species of _Parnassia_ and six primroses made the turf gay, mixed with saxifrages, _Androsace_ and _Campanula._ By the cottages was abundance of shepherd’s-purse, _Lepidium,_ and balsams, with dock, _Galeopsis,_ and _Cuscuta._ Several low dwarf species of honeysuckle formed stunted bushes like heather; and _Anisodus,_ a curious plant allied to _Hyoscyamus,_ whose leaves are greedily eaten by yaks, was very common.
The genus _Cuscuta_ contains quite a number of species which go under the common name of dodder, and which have the peculiarily of living as parasites upon other plants.
Thus, the _Cuscuta_ of flax, called by the French _Bourreau du Lin_ (the flax's executioner), and by the English, flax dodder, grows only upon this textile plant, the crop of which it often ruins.