Crossword-Solution: LINUM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Linum | n. | A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum). |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LINUM | anagram | LUMIN, ULMIN, UNMIL |
We have 5 clues for the answer “LINUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Genus of flax | 1 answer |
| Ornamental flax | 1 answer |
| type of plant of temperate regions | 1 answer |
| LILAC-flowering plant | 4 answers |
| A HERBACEOUS PLANT GENUS OF THE FAMILY LINACEAE WITH SMALL SESSILE LEAVES | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LINUM (5)
Soon afterwards Fritz Müller discovered that the young stems of an Alisma and of a Linum—plants which do not climb and are widely separated in the natural system—revolved plainly, though irregularly, and he states that he has reason to suspect that this occurs with some other plants.
Journal, 1862.) "On the Existence of Two Forms, and on their Reciprocal Sexual Relations, in several Species of the Genus Linum." Linn.
Certainly in Primula there is unequal fertility in the two forms, and I suspect this is the case with Linum; and, therefore I felt bound in the Primula paper to state that it might be a step towards a dioecious condition; though I believe there are no dioecious forms in Primulaceae or Linaceae.
Hildebrand, contains a reference to the reception of the dimorphic work in France:-- "I am extremely much pleased to hear that you have been looking at the manner of fertilisation of your native Orchids, and still more pleased to hear that you have been experimenting on Linum.
The earliest accounts I possess of my progenitors represent them as a goodly growth of the Linum Usitatissimum, divided into a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly well conditioned, and remarkable for an equality that renders the production valuable.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1991–2002).