Crossword-Solution: RIBES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ribes | n. | A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RIBES | anagram | BIERS, BIRSE, BRIES, BRISE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “RIBES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Currant genus | 1 answer |
| Genus of currants | 1 answer |
| Genus of shrubs, the currants. | 1 answer |
| genus of shrubs that includes currants | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RIBES (5)
Some of the short laterals of the glaciers that drew their fountain snows from the jagged recesses of the summit are from one to two hundred feet in height, and scarce at all wasted as yet, notwithstanding the countless storms that have fallen upon them, while cool rills flow between them, watering charming gardens of arctic plants—saxifrages, larkspurs, dwarf birch, ribes, and parnassia, etc.—beautiful memories of the Ice Age, representing a once greatly extended flora.
Ribes mentions a man of thirty-three who, in the Spanish campaign in 1811, received an injury which carried away the entire body of the lower jaw, half of each ramus, and also mangled in a great degree the neighboring soft parts.
Beal of Michigan informs me that the flowers of the Missouri currant (Ribes aureum) abound with nectar, so that children often suck them; and he saw hive-bees sucking through holes made by a bird, the oriole, and at the same time humble-bees sucking in the proper manner at the mouths of the flowers.
Both belong to the Ribes family of plants, and they are to be cultivated on the same general principles.
Under the tribe _Grossulariae_ of the Saxifrage family we find the _Ribes_ containing many species of currants and gooseberries; but, in accordance with the scope of this book, we shall quote from Professor Gray (whose arrangement we follow) only those that furnish the currants of cultivation.
Quotes with RIBES (1)
Sometimes shows became almost obsessively obscure, as with the gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) shows of nineteenth-century Britain, when workingmen in the industrial counties of northern England and the Midlands formed themselves into societies, constituted with presidents, secretaries, and stewards, for the purpose of running gooseberry shows — weight being the decisive factor. Quite why this fruit, always something of a minority taste, should become the subject of what only c…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–1974).