Crossword-Solution: OLEANDER 8 letters, 79 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Oleander n. A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having
clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East
Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe.
Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

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OLEANDER anagram DELOREAN, RELOANED

We have 79 clues for the answer “OLEANDER”

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Fragrant yet poisonous Eurasian shrub 1 answer
Ornamental, but poisonous, shrub 1 answer
Ornamental tropical shrub 1 answer
Ornamental dogbane 1 answer
OLD World shrub 1 answer
Member of the dogbane family 1 answer
Hiroshima's official flower, as it was the first to bloom after the atomic bombing in 1945 1 answer
Highly toxic garden flower 1 answer
Highly poisonous garden plant 1 answer
Handsome but poisonous shrub. 1 answer
rose bay 1 answer
Fragrant poisonous shrub 1 answer
Evergreen with aromatic blooms 1 answer
Evergreen of the dogbane family 1 answer
Dogbane shrub 1 answer
Dogbane relative 1 answer
Dogbane family shrub 1 answer
Dogbane family member 1 answer
"White _____" (2002) 1 answer
"White ___" (Michelle Pfeiffer film) 1 answer
Pink-flowered shrub 1 answer
White-flowered evergreen 1 answer
White shrub in a Michelle Pfeiffer film title 1 answer
Toxic but fragrant shrub 1 answer
Southern flowering shrub. 1 answer
Shrub in the dogbane family 1 answer
Shrub containing several toxic compounds 1 answer
Showy Mediterranean flower 1 answer
Rosebay 1 answer
RAT-poison plant 1 answer
Pretty but poisonous shrub 1 answer
Poisonous shrub with white flowers 1 answer
Poisonous ornamental shrub 1 answer
Poisonous ornamental 1 answer
Poisonous flowering shrub 1 answer
Poisonous evergreen shrub 1 answer
Ornamental, poisonous shrub 1 answer
Poisonous evergreen 2 answers
Showy-flowered shrub 2 answers
Ornamental evergreen shrub 2 answers
White-flowered shrub 3 answers
poisonous shrub 3 answers
Flowery shrub 4 answers
Ornamental evergreen 4 answers
Fragrant evergreen 5 answers
OLD World plant 5 answers
CHINA SHRUB 10 answers
CASHEW FAMILY SHRUB ASIAN 10 answers
California shrub 10 answers
A WHITE POISONOUS SOLUBLE CRYSTALLINE SUBLIMATE OF MERCURY 10 answers
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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 OLEANDER (5)

This morning Thea saw to her delight that the two oleander trees, one white and one red, had been brought up from their winter quarters in the cellar.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Here, along the parapet, were stationed half a dozen shapeless fragments of sculpture, with a couple of meagre orange-trees in terra-cotta tubs, and an oleander that never flowered.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Have I not always seem it in my dreams? It is white, love, is it not, with polished columns, and a sculptured cornice against the blue? Groves of laurel and oleander and thickets of roses surround it; but from the terrace where we walk at sunset, the eye looks out over woodlands and cool meadows where, deep-bowered under ancient boughs, a stream goes delicately toward the river.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995
The child had been well trained somewhere, for there was a cracked dish full of oleander blossom on the drawers'-head, and the pillow-slips on the bed were as clean as I could wish.
Prester John John Buchan 1996
You had supposed it made no part of the grounds, for a fence runs round it lined with oleander; but as the Squire is nowhere else, is it not just possible he may be here? It is a grim little wooden shanty; cobwebs bedeck it; friendly mice inhabit its recesses; the mailed cockroach walks upon the wall; so also, I regret to say, the scorpion.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends - Volume 2 [of 2] Robert Louis Stevenson 2019

Quotes with OLEANDER (3)

Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.
Janet Fitch White Oleander
I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 59 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).