Crossword-Solution: EMPETRUM
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEMAZC
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eruption
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Sentences with EMPETRUM (5)
Near the edge of the banks about half a mile southward, the broom-crowberry, (_Empetrum Conradii_,) for which Plymouth is the only locality in Massachusetts usually named, forms pretty green mounds four or five feet in diameter by one foot high,--soft, springy beds for the wayfarer: I saw it afterward in Provincetown.
During a few short excursions along the shores of Ounalaska Harbor and on two of the adjacent mountains, towards the end of May and beginning of October we saw about fifty species of flowering plants--empetrum, vaccinium, bryanthus, pyrola, arctostaphylos, ledum, cassiope, lupinus, zeranium, epilobium, silene, draba, and saxifraga being the most telling and characteristic of the genera represented.
The tundra glowed in the mellow sunshine with the colors of the ripe foliage of vaccinium, empetrum, arctostaphylos, and dwarf birch; red, purple, and yellow, in pure bright tones, while the berries, hardly less beautiful, were scattered everywhere as if they had been sown broadcast with a lavish hand, the whole blending harmoniously with the neutral tints of the furred bed of lichens and mosses on which the bright leaves and berries were painted.
The hills were clad with Ling and with _Empetrum_, which entangled our feet at every step; not to mention the trees lying in all directions in our way, and over which we were obliged to climb.
Berries of the Wild Vine (_Rubus saxatilis_), the _Vaccinium_ (Whortleberry), _Mesomora_ (_Cornus suecica_), _Empetrum_ (Crow or Crake-berry), and (_Rubus_) _Chamæmorus_, are here in abundance.