Crossword-Solution: PORTULACA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portulaca | n. | A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus. |
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| Plant of the purslane family | 1 answer |
| Popular name of rose moss. | 1 answer |
| tropical American plant with yellow, pink, or purple showy flowers | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with PORTULACA (5)
Then the flowers! There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady’s-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks.
Soon as I got from sight of the house I made a powderhorn of a curled leaf, loaded my gun with portulaca powder, rammed in a tiger lily bullet, laid the weapon across my shoulder, and stepped high and lightly as Laddie does when he's in the Big Woods hunting for squirrel.
Just how to you bring down your prey?" "I use portulaca powder and tiger lily bullets on the tigers, and four o'clocks on the lions," I said.
Soppy little plants of the portulaca and small, fine ferns shiver under the drip of falls and in dribbling crevices.
The sides are yellow as marigold, The port-lids are red when the ports are up: Blood-red squares like an even chequer Of yellow asters and portulaca.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1959–1983).