Crossword-Solution: ONAGRA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ONAGRA | anagram | AGROAN, ANGORA, ARAGON, ARANGO, ORGANA |
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| Female wild ass. | 1 answer |
| Genus of the evening primrose. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ONAGRA (5)
The genus _Oenothera_ is to a large degree devoid of varietal characteristics, especially in the subgenus _Onagra_, to which _biennis_, _muricata_, _lamarckiana_ and some others belong.
Following this line backward or downward we reach another apparent mutation-period, which includes the origin of [709] the group called _Oenothera_, with a large number of species of the same general type as the _Onagra-forms, Still farther downward comes the old genus _Oenothera_ itself, with numerous subgenera diverging in sundry characters and directions.
The species of the sub-genus _Onagra_ to which _Lamarckiana_ belongs were originally confined to America (Canada, United States, and Mexico), but _Lamarckiana_ itself has never been found there in a wild state.
Herds of goats, with pendent ears, sheep with large tails, and asses which remind you, by their beauty, of the onagra of Scripture, issue from the villages at the dawn of day.
Boom! boom! Walk in, ladies! Walk in, gentlemen! Here's the buffalo from Calabria, and the onagra of the desert! Walk in, walk in! Don't be frightened! All walk in!" And they did come in, in crowds.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1959).