Crossword-Solution: SANDWORT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sandwort | n. | Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.) |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SANDWORT | anagram | DRWATSON |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SANDWORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Arenaceous plant | 1 answer |
| Loosely matted plant with mosslike foliage | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZAEME
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eruption
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Sentences with SANDWORT (5)
The slide passed, the path winds through dense, low spruce growth, and, the last steep cliffs gradually overcome, the extreme limit of tree vegetation (four thousand eight hundred feet) is passed, and the remaining rocky slope offers no growth except a few hardy plants, such as sandwort, grasses, and several varieties of moss and lichen.
The two flowers oftenest noticed by the chance comer to these parts are the Greenland sandwort (the "mountain daisy"!) and the pretty geum, with its handsome crinkled leaves and its bright yellow blossoms, like buttercups.
How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place! In the valley it would be lost amid the crowd.
They strolled about the summit, admired the prospect, picked a bunch of sandwort, perhaps, but especially they went to see the snow.
Everybody notices that many of the mountain species, like the diapensia, the rose-bay, the Greenland sandwort (called the mountain daisy by the Summit House people, for some inscrutable reason), and the phyllodoce, have blossoms disproportionately large and handsome; as if they realized that, in order to attract their indispensable allies, the insects, to these inhospitable regions, they must offer them some special inducements.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1991–2014).