Crossword-Solution: SABADILLA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sabadilla | n. | A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SABADILLA”
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| tropical American liliaceous plant | 1 answer |
| sebadilla | 2 answers |
| CEBADILLA | 2 answers |
| white hellebore root | 4 answers |
| Mexican plant. | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with SABADILLA (5)
For instance, there is the veratrine that may be derived from the sabadilla seeds which grow in the West Indies and Mexico.
The point is, veratrine from what source? The sabadilla is dextro-rotary; the death camas is levo-rotary.
Veratric acid (Chem.), an acid occurring, together with veratrine, in the root of white hellebore (Veratrum album), and in sabadilla seed; -- extracted as a white crystalline substance which is related to protocatechuic acid.
See Veratrum.] (Chem.) Defn: A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste.
Petrograd tale of a gloomy 'Papa' and an angry Below." Can the Prussian idol have contracted so vulgar an ailment as a pain in his underneath? *** Sabadilla, it appears, is a plant of the Lily family, from which is extracted a poison that forms the basis of the German "tear" shells.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1967).