Crossword-Solution: EPHEDRA
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| F.D.A.-banned weight-loss supplement | 1 answer |
| gymnosperm shrub | 1 answer |
| evergreen bushes | 1 answer |
| Subject of an FDA dietary-supplement ban | 1 answer |
| Subject of a 2004 F.D.A. dietary supplement ban | 1 answer |
| Source of a nasal congestion remedy | 1 answer |
| Recently banned weight-loss substance | 1 answer |
| Ingredient in "Mormon tea" | 1 answer |
| FDA-banned herbal supplement | 1 answer |
| F.D.A.-banned supplement | 1 answer |
| F.D.A.-banned diet pill ingredient | 1 answer |
| Dangerous diet pill ingredient | 1 answer |
| Banned supplement ingredient | 1 answer |
| Banned supplement | 1 answer |
| Banned medicine used to treat asthma | 1 answer |
| Banned diet pill ingredient | 1 answer |
| gnetales | 3 answers |
| Desert plant | 13 answers |
| desert shrub | 15 answers |
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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
EZACME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EPHEDRA (5)
But how did they learn, repenting in the last agony, that animal fat is the best antidote for its virulence; and who taught them that the essence of joint pine (Ephedra nevadensis), which looks to have no juice in it of any sort, is efficacious in stomachic disorders.
The rocks were gneiss, with granite veins (strike north-east, dip south-east): they were covered with _Ephedra,_* [A curious genus of small shrubs allied to pines, that grows in the south of Europe.
There was not a bush six inches high, and the only approach to woody plants were minute creeping willows and dwarf rhododendrons, with a very few prostrate junipers and _Ephedra._ The base of the spur was cut into broad flat terraces, composed of unstratified sand, pebbles, and boulders; the remains, doubtless, of an enormously thick glacial deposit.
The already scanty vegetation diminished rapidly: it consisted chiefly of scattered bushes of a dwarf scrubby honeysuckle and tufts of nettle, both so brittle as to be trodden into powder, and the short leafless twiggy _Ephedra,_ a few inches higher.
The rocks were gneiss, with granite veins (strike north-east, dip south-east): they were covered with _Ephedra,_[196] an _Onosma_ which yields a purple dye, _Orchis,_ and species of _Androsace_; while the slopes were clothed with the spikenard and purple _Pedicularis,_ and the moist grounds with yellow cowslip and long grass.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (2000–2020).