Crossword-Solution: PONS 4 letters, 106 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Pons	n.	A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PONS	anagram	PSON, SNOP, SPON

We have 106 clues for the answer “PONS”

Clue	Answers
"Bridge" of nerves from the forebrain to the medulla and cerebellum	1 answer
"Cara Nome" is a specialty of hers.	1 answer
A Lily of France.	1 answer
A famous Lily.	1 answer
BRAIN area connecting the medulla with the midbrain	1 answer
BRIDGELIKE structure or part	1 answer
Brain fibers	1 answer
Bridge over an Ancient Roman river	1 answer
Bridge: Lat.	1 answer
Bundle of nerve fibers in the brainstem from which REM sleep signals originate	1 answer
CENTRAL nervous system, linkage between the upper and lower levels of the	1 answer
Coloratura Lily	1 answer
Coloratura from Cannes.	1 answer
Coloratura soprano Lily	1 answer
Diminutive coloratura	1 answer
Diva Lily	1 answer
Famed coloratura	1 answer
Famed diva	1 answer
Fibers to the medulla oblongata	1 answer
French coloratura soprano.	1 answer
French diva.	1 answer
French opera star.	1 answer
French soprano.	1 answer
French-American soprano Lily	1 answer
French-born Met diva	1 answer
French-born opera singer	1 answer
French-born soprano	1 answer
Gilda, Linda, Philine, etc.	1 answer
Her Met debut came in 1931	1 answer
Imogene Coca's operatic double.	1 answer
Inauguration singer.	1 answer
LINKAGE between the upper and lower levels of the central nervous system	1 answer
Lakmé, Lucia, Gilda, etc.	1 answer
Late soprano Lily	1 answer
Legendary soprano Lily	1 answer
Lily from France	1 answer
Lily of operatic fame	1 answer
Lily of the opera	1 answer
Lily who debuted as Lakmé	1 answer
Linking brainstem part	1 answer
Longtime Met soprano	1 answer
Lyrical Lily	1 answer
Memorable singer Lily	1 answer
Met star for nearly 30 years	1 answer
Mrs. Kostelanetz, nee ___.	1 answer
Mrs. Kostelanetz.	1 answer
NERVOUS system (central), linkage between the upper and lower levels of the	1 answer
Name of fame in opera.	1 answer
Nero's bridge	1 answer
Opera singer Lily	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

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RETEA

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greedy person

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Sentences with PONS (5)

The surface of the cerebrum is divided into irregular ridges, or convolutions, separated by grooves (the soÐcalled fissures and sulci), and the two hemispheres are connected at the bottom of the longitudinal fissure by a great transverse band of nervous matter, the corpus callosum, while the two halves of the cerebellum are connected on the under side of the brain by the bridge, or pons Varolii.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Lidange and Pons, who at the same time examined samples of the soil in which the body had been interred.

She Stands Accused Victor MacClure 1996

Sharkey reports a case of tumor of the pons varolii and left crus cerebri, in which for months there was excessive generalized perspiration; it finally disappeared without treatment.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996

But seeing that it was impossible to marry the girl out of hand, with her black eyes and sooty brows, unable, too, to read or write, the Baron began by apprenticing her to a business; he placed her as a learner with the embroiderers to the Imperial Court, the well-known Pons Brothers.

Cousin Betty Honore de Balzac 1999

Heaven and earth swam before my eyes as we reached the Pons Sublicia, and heard the tawny waters of Tiber swaying to the sea.

Old Friends Andrew Lang 2013

Quotes with PONS (2)

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.

Carl Sagan Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

Beverly Sills

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 126 times in crossword archives (1942–2017).