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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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TEERA
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greedy person
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Sentences with DANTHONIA (5)
Poverty grass (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.
Epidermal appendages are rare, the most frequent being marginal, saw-like, cartilaginous teeth, usually minute, but occasionally (_Danthonia scabra_, _Panicum serratum_) so large as to give the margin a serrate appearance.
This grass, which does not belong to Avena, is referrible to Danthonia, from the structure of the outer valve of its perianthium.
But Danthonia requires subdivision into several sections, of which, perhaps, our plant may be considered as forming one.
The character of the section established on _Danthonia Forskalii_ would chiefly consist in the very remarkable obliquity of the joints of the locusta, which is, indeed, so great, that after their separation each flower seems to have at the base an almost vertically descendent spur; and as the inferior extremity of the upper joint is produced beyond the lower, a short calcar actually exists before separation, and this calcar is equally manifest in the terminal rudiment of the locusta.