Crossword-Solution: KNAPWEED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Knapweed | n. | The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “KNAPWEED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN tumbleweed | 1 answer |
| BELLWEED | 1 answer |
| GLOBULAR-headed, purple flowering plant | 1 answer |
| Hardy purple-flowered plant | 1 answer |
| NORTH American tumbleweed | 1 answer |
| plant with purplish thistle-like flowers | 1 answer |
| Eurasian plant | 2 answers |
| tumbleweed | 3 answers |
| North American plant | 25 answers |
| Weed | 38 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
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eruption
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Sentences with KNAPWEED (5)
Nor must we forget the lesser thistle tribe, with first of all, the prickly or 'cruel' thistle, which is so well armed that the plant collector knows not where to grasp it; next, the spear thistle, with its ample foliage, ending each of its veins with a spear head; lastly, the black knapweed, which gathers itself into a spiky knot.
Wild charlock--a clear yellow--pink pimpernels, pink-streaked convolvulus, great white convolvulus, double-yellow toadflax, blue borage, broad rays of blue chicory, tall corn-cockles, azure corn-flowers, the great mallow, almost a bush, purple knapweed--I will make no further catalogue, but there are pages more of flowers, great and small, that grow at the edge of the plough, from the coltsfoot that starts out of the clumsy clod in spring to the white clematis.
Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.
CHAPTER II THE MILL As Ishmael went along he picked a large bunch of the wayside flowers as an offering to Phoebe--purple knapweed and betony, the plumy dead-pink heads of hemp-agrimony, and tufts of strong yellow fleabane, all squeezed together in his hot little hand.
What would the sturdy mowers whom I once watched cutting their way steadily through the tall grass in June say, could they see here the black knapweed cultivated as a garden treasure? Its hard woody head with purple florets lifted high above the ground, was greatly disliked by them, as, too, the blue scabious, and indeed most other flowers.
Quotes with KNAPWEED (1)
At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From every vantage point something remarkable filled the screen- clusters of wild red columbine, fallen boulders forming geometric designs against the wall, crusty green lichen gnawing on rocks, a Baltimore oriole popping from a thicket of brush, and, at my feet, a grasshopper clinging to a stem of purple aster. I could spend a day here and barely scratch the surface. …
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).