Crossword-Solution: MARTAGON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Martagon | n. | A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “MARTAGON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Eurasian lily plant cultivated for its mottled purplish-red flowers | 1 answer |
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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.
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Sentences with MARTAGON (5)
Trumpet lilies are bursting into bloom; the scarlet martagon is at its best; _speciosum_, tiger, and American Turk's cap lilies are yet to follow.
Professor Martyn says that the flower called _Lilium Martagon_ or the _Scarlet Turk's Cap_ is the plant alluded to by the ancients.
Some authors suppose the Red Martagon Lily to be the poetical Hyacinth of the ancients, but this is evidently a mistaken opinion, as the azure blue color alone would decide and Pliny describes the Hyacinth as having a sword grass and the smell of the grape flower, which agrees with the Hyacinth, but not with the Martagon.
The poets also notice the hyacinth under different colours, and every body knows that the hyacinth flowers with sapphire colored purple, crimson, flesh and white bells, but a blue martagon will be sought for in vain.
The sunbeam settles by degrees (I wish that she had not been made to term it, with all too Browningesque agility, "the radiant cripple"), and finally lights on her Martagon lily, which is a lily with purple flowers.