Crossword-Solution: LUNGWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lungwort | n. | An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung. |
| Lungwort | n. | Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. |
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| LOBARIA pulmonaria | 1 answer |
| Lichen | 10 answers |
| BRITISH herbaceous plant | 23 answers |
| EUROPEAN herb/herbaceous plant | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LUNGWORT (5)
Now she toyed with a yellow oxlip, now paused at a purple lungwort; but most she went into the garden, and hovered, still as a humming-bird, among the rose-leaves and branches, especially those growing against the sun-bathed old wooden porch, and for so long that one wondered what she was doing there.
Nor was it the colour of her eyes, the deep pure blue of the lungwort, that blue loveliness seen in no other flower on earth.
And the dead face was like marble; but the wide-open eyes that had never wholly lost their brilliance and the beautiful lungwort blue colour were like living eyes--living and gazing through the crystal-clear running water at the group of nuns staring down with horror-struck faces at her.
Lungwort, whose leaves bear a fancied resemblance to the surface of the lungs, was considered good for pulmonary complaints, and liverwort, having a leaf like the liver, cured liver diseases.
What says Noehden, always a leading authority in German: "_Mangold._ Red beet; name of some other plants, such as lungwort and sorrel." Mangold is here, then, a generic term, standing for other plants equally with the beet.