Crossword-Solution: PEZIZA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Peziza | n. | A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors. |
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| Cup-shaped forest fungus | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PEZIZA (5)
The very rare _Strombilomyces strombilaceus_ has been found in Grove Park, Watford, and the still rarer _Peziza luteo-nitens_ on the Chalk slopes between Aldbury and Ashridge Park.
Where the sacs soon become free, no special Peziza, covering, mostly fleshy, cup-like fungi, cup fungus.
What's that?" "Orange peziza," said Vane, pouncing upon a little fungus cup; and this led the doctor into a dissertation on the beauty of these plants, especially of those which required a powerful magnifying glass to see their structure.
Lloyd._ Figure 427.--Peziza badia.] Gregarious in its habits; sessile, or narrowed into a very short stout stem, more or less pitted; nearly round and closed at first, then expanded until cup-shaped; margin at first involute; externally covered with a frost-like bloom; disk darker than the external surface, very changeable in color; lobes more or less split and wavy, somewhat thick; spore-sacs cylindrical, apex truncante, sporidia oblong-ovate, epispore rough, 8-spored.
Cooke._ [Illustration: Figure 437.--Peziza nebulosa.] Nebulosa means cloudy or dark, from _nebula_, a cloud; from its color.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).