Crossword-Solution: OBELIA
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| Mosslike growth on marine rock | 1 answer |
| Type of jellyfish. | 2 answers |
| hydroid | 5 answers |
| BRANCHING MARINE GROWTH | 10 answers |
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCAEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OBELIA (3)
Ward, F.E.S._ A PLANT-LIKE ANIMAL, OR ZOOPHYTE, CALLED OBELIA Consisting of a colony of small polyps, whose stinging tentacles are well shown greatly enlarged in the lower photograph.] [Illustration: _Reproduced by permission of "The Quart.
Equally beautiful is the dense growth of Campanularia, covering (as I have seen it in Plymouth Sound) large tracts of the rock, its delicate shoots swaying to and fro with each movement of the water, like trees in a storm, or the colony of Obelia on the waving frond of the tangle looking almost ethereal in its grace, transparency, and delicacy, as seen against the coarse dark surface that supports it." Few things are more beautiful than to look down from a boat into transparent water.
One of the best-known genera is _Obelia_, of which several species are among the commonest Hydroids of the British coast.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).