Crossword-Solution: IMPATIENS
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| Impatiens | n. | A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam. |
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| BUSY lizzie | 1 answer |
| Shade-loving annual. | 1 answer |
| plant genus that includes jewelweed and touch-me-not | 1 answer |
| plant such as balsam, touch-me-not, busy Lizzie, and policeman's helmet | 1 answer |
| INDIAN annual | 3 answers |
| Indian plant | 35 answers |
| perennial plant | 41 answers |
| ANNUAL plant | 53 answers |
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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.
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Sentences with IMPATIENS (5)
The botanical name of _Impatiens_ given to the balsam alludes to this sudden dehiscence of the capsules, which cannot endure contact without bursting.
That these flowers owe their structure primarily to the arrested development of perfect ones, we may infer from such cases as that of the lower rudimentary petal in Viola being larger than the others, like the lower lip of the perfect flower,--from a vestige of a spur in the cleistogamic flowers of Impatiens,-- from the ten stamens of Ononis being united into a tube,--and other such structures.
Bennett has shown that the buds of the cleistogamic and perfect flowers of Impatiens differ at a very early period of growth.
Wilder, the editor of a horticultural journal in the United States quoted in ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ 1868 page 1286, states that Lilium auratum, Impatiens pallida and fulva, and Forsythia viridissima, cannot be fertilised with their own pollen.) As with plants of the same species and parentage, some individuals are self-sterile and others self-fertile, of which fact Reseda odorata offers the most striking instances, it is not at all surprising that species of the same genus differ in this same manner.
Impatiens barbigerum (Balsaminaceae).--The flowers, though excellently adapted for cross-fertilisation by the bees which freely visit them, set abundantly under a net.
Quotes with IMPATIENS (3)
This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow, and when I fill the long flower boxes, then press into rowsthe limp roots of red impatiens — the instant hand of Deathalways ready to burst forthfrom the sleeve of his voluminous cloak. Then the soil is full of marvels, bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco, red-brown pine needles, a beetle quickto burrow back under the loam. Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue, the clouds a brighter white, and all I hear is…
After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.
A weathered cork sat inside the box lined with green velvet. It had turned a darker brown and was a little shriveled, but the name Moet & Chandon was still clearly visible. Vivien reached inside and pulled out her mother's cork. The one she'd searched for in the bed of red impatiens. To anyone else, it was nothing. Just a weathered piece of nothing. To Vivien, it was everything.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (1963).