Crossword-Solution: GLADIOLUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gladiolus | n. | A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily. |
| Gladiolus | n. | The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “GLADIOLUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FREESIA-like plant | 1 answer |
| Flower named for a small sword. | 1 answer |
| Iris relative | 1 answer |
| flower named for a sword | 1 answer |
| flower named for a sword in latin | 1 answer |
| garden plant with sword-shaped leaves | 1 answer |
| Iris-family flower | 2 answers |
| Sword lily | 3 answers |
| Showy garden flower | 4 answers |
| BULBOUS plant | 46 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
CEMEAZ
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eruption
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Sentences with GLADIOLUS (5)
Here I found some young onions, a couple of gladiolus bulbs, and a quantity of immature carrots, all of which I secured, and, scrambling over a ruined wall, went on my way through scarlet and crimson trees towards Kew—it was like walking through an avenue of gigantic blood drops—possessed with two ideas: to get more food, and to limp, as soon and as far as my strength permitted, out of this accursed unearthly region of the pit.
Bramann reported a case in which a dermoid cyst of small size was situated over the sternum at the junction of the manubrium with the gladiolus, and a similar cyst in the neck near the left cornu of the hyoid bone.
The house itself had a nice little garden, gay with geraniums and gladiolus, and bounded by a hedge of sunflowers which would have gladdened the heart of an aesthete.
The hybrid _Gladiolus colvilii_ occasionally bears uniformly coloured flowers, and one case is recorded[57] of all the flowers on a plant thus changing colour.
Some remarkable cases are given in my ‘Variation under Domestication’ chapter 17 2nd edition volume 2 page 121, of hybrids of Gladiolus and Cistus, any one of which could be fertilised by pollen from any other, but not by its own pollen.) Lastly, the fact of the intercrossed plants in Table 7/A not exceeding in height the self-fertilised plants in a greater and greater degree in the later generations, is probably the result of their having become more and more closely inter-related.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–2001).