Crossword-Solution: GLORIOSA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gloriosa | n. | A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Climbing lily type | 1 answer |
| bulbous African tropical plant | 1 answer |
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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
ZECMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GLORIOSA (5)
Plants which climb by the aid of spontaneously revolving and sensitive petioles—_Clematis_—_Tropæolum_—_Maurandia_, flower-peduncles moving spontaneously and sensitive to a touch—_Rhodochiton_—_Lophospermum_—internodes sensitive—_Solanum_, thickening of the clasped petioles—_Fumaria_—_Adlumia_—Plants which climb by the aid of their produced midribs—_Gloriosa_—_Flagellaria_—_Nepenthes_—Summary on leaf-climbers.
But these sub-divisions graduate into each other, as we shall see under Corydalis and the Gloriosa lily.
The hooked tips of the leaves of the _Gloriosa_ are sensitive only on their inner or inferior surfaces.
The tips of the uncaught leaves of the _Gloriosa_, as they grow old, contract into a flat spire or helix.
This is the case: thus the several leaf-climbing species of the Antirrhineæ, of Solanum, Cocculus, and Gloriosa, have within the same family and even within the same genus, relatives which are twiners.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1998).