Crossword-Solution: MESUA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The names of Mesua and Geber, of Razis and Avicenna, are ranked with the Grecian masters; in the city of Bagdad, eight hundred and sixty physicians were licensed to exercise their lucrative profession: 64 in Spain, the life of the Catholic princes was intrusted to the skill of the Saracens, 65 and the school of Salerno, their legitimate offspring, revived in Italy and Europe the precepts of the healing art.

The names of Mesua and Geber, of Razis and Avicenna, are ranked with the Grecian masters; in the city of Bagdad, eight hundred and sixty physicians were licensed to exercise their lucrative profession: in Spain, the life of the Catholic princes was intrusted to the skill of the Saracens, and the school of Salerno, their legitimate offspring, revived in Italy and Europe the precepts of the healing art.

The toon is also cut, with red sandal-wood (_Adenanthera pavonina_); also Nageesa,[373] _Mesua ferrea,_ which is highly valued for its weight, strength, and durability: _Aquilaria agallocha,_ the eagle-wood, a tree yielding uggur oil, is also much sought for its fragrant wood, which is carried to Silhet and Azmerigunj, where it is broken up and distilled.

These are unknown in the Chittagong forests, which have Jarool (_Lagerstrœmia_) _Mesua, Dipterocarpi,_ nutmegs, oaks of several kinds, and many other trees not known in the Cuttack forests, and all typical of a perennially humid atmosphere.

Good European houses surmount all the eminences, surrounded by trees of _Acacia_ and _Cæsalpinia._ In the hollows are native huts amidst vegetation of every hue, glossy green _Garciniæ_ and figs, broad plantains, feathery _Cassia_ and Acacias, dark _Mesua_, red-purple _Terminalia,_ leafless scarlet-flowered _Bombax,_ and grey _Casuarina._[388] Seaward the tide leaves immense flats, called churs, which stretch for many miles on either side the offing.