Crossword-Solution: HAWKWEED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hawkweed | n. | A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision. |
| Hawkweed | n. | A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius). |
We have 5 clues for the answer “HAWKWEED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| hairy plant with clusters of dandelion-like flowers | 1 answer |
| Composite plant. | 2 answers |
| ORANGE flowered plant | 4 answers |
| RED-flowering plant | 21 answers |
| perennial plant | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HAWKWEED (5)
Why should I be content to say, "Oh, it's a hawkweed"? That is but one degree less ungracious than if I dismissed all the yellow-rayed as "dandelions." I feel as if the flower were pleased by my recognition of its personality.
For the same reason I had rather say "hawkweed" than "hieracium"; the homelier word has more of kindly friendship.
Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants.
Among the second are these: Medicago lupulina, or nonesuch; Trifolium repens, or white clover; Lathyrus pratensis, or meadow lathyrus; Capsella bursa pastoris, or shepherd's purse; Vicia peregrina, or broad-podded vetch; Convolvulus arvensis, or small bindweed; Pterotheca nemausensis, a sort of hawkweed; and Poa pratensis, or smooth-stalked meadow-grass.
The sunshine gleamed on the rooks' black feathers overhead, and on the sward sparkled from hawkweed, some lotus and yellow weed, as from a faint ripple of water.