Crossword-Solution: LATHYRUS
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| genus of climbing plant | 1 answer |
| Bitter vetch | 2 answers |
| LEGUMINOUS plant | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with LATHYRUS (5)
Darwin showed that Pisum sativum and Lathyrus odoratus belong to plants in which self-pollination is regularly effected, and that this accounts for the constancy of certain sorts of these plants, while a variety of form is produced by crossing.
The spiral contraction of tendrils is quite independent of their power of spontaneously revolving, for it occurs in tendrils, such as those of _Lathyrus grandiflorus_ and _Ampelopsis hederacea_, which do not revolve.
See "Variation under Domestication," Edition II., Volume II., page 68; but the explanation there given for Pisum may probably apply to Lathyrus.), bee-orchis, and perhaps hollyhocks are, at present, my greatest difficulties; and I find I cannot experimentise by castrating sweet-peas, without doing fatal injury.
Under Lathyrus nissolia it would [be] better to refer to my hypothetical explanation of the grass-like leaves than to nothing.
Can you or any of your colleagues think of any such plant? It is indirectly on this account that I so much want the seeds of Lathyrus nissolia.