Crossword-Solution: DIANTHUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dianthus | n. | A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DIANTHUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Carnation genus | 1 answer |
| Genus including pinks and carnations | 1 answer |
| Plant of the pink family | 1 answer |
| type of widely cultivated Eurasian plant, such as the carnation, pink, and sweet william | 1 answer |
| sweet William | 2 answers |
| Carnation | 14 answers |
| PINK flowered plant | 25 answers |
| Pink | 30 answers |
| perennial plant | 41 answers |
| ANNUAL plant | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIANTHUS (5)
One of them will certainly be the Dianthus, {170} which will open into a furbelowed flower, furred with innumerable delicate tentacula; and in the centre a mouth of the most delicate orange, the size of the whole animal being perhaps eight inches high and five across.
Secondly, in crosses of the first generation, when the colours of the two parents do not readily unite, as with Mirabilis and Dianthus.
The contabescent plants of Dianthus and Verbascum, found wild by Wiegmann, grew on a dry and sterile bank.
There is perhaps an additional cause, namely, self-fertilisation; for many plants of Dianthus and Lobelia, which had been raised from self-fertilised seeds, had their anthers in this state; but these instances are not conclusive, as both genera are liable from other causes to this affection.
During the next year, I raised for the same purpose as before two large beds close together of self-fertilised and crossed seedlings from the carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2014).