Crossword-Solution: RETUSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retuse | a. | Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETUSE | anagram | ERESTU, EURTES, SUERTE, SURETE, TEREUS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “RETUSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| HAVING rounded apex with shallow notch (of leaf) | 1 answer |
| Having a slightly notched, rounded apex | 1 answer |
| Rounded and notched, as a leaf | 1 answer |
| having a rounded apex and a central depression | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETUSE (5)
Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella.
The _third glume_ is pale, nearly equal to the second glume with a longitudinal depression at the back, less hairy than the second glume, 3-nerved (rarely 5-nerved also); _palea_ is present, and it is hyaline, shorter than the glume, truncate or shallowly retuse, usually barren but occasionally with three stamens.
The _fourth glume_ is slightly shorter and narrower than the third, ovate, acute, obtuse or toothed, ciliate, nerveless or faintly 1-nerved, paleate; _palea_ is about half as long as the glume, quadrate, toothed or retuse, nerveless, glabrous.
The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7- to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.
Leaves often retuse; calyx-lobes obtuse in the bud; petals small or minute; style shorter, 3--4-cleft; seeds larger, sharply tuberculate; otherwise like the last.--Ark.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–1994).