Crossword-Solution: SECKEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Seckel | n. | A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SECKEL | anagram | CLEEKS, SECKLE |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SECKEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Reddish-brown pear | 1 answer |
| Small pear | 1 answer |
| Small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear | 1 answer |
| Small, juicy pear. | 1 answer |
| Small, yellowish-brown variety of pear | 1 answer |
| PEAR tree (genus) | 2 answers |
| Winter pear | 3 answers |
| Bartlett relative | 4 answers |
| Bosc relative | 4 answers |
| type pear | 4 answers |
| Kind of pear | 6 answers |
| Pear type | 6 answers |
| Pear variety | 9 answers |
| Type of Pear | 13 answers |
| ANJOU KIN | 13 answers |
| Pear | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with SECKEL (5)
The advent of genius is like what florists style the _breaking_ of a seedling tulip into what we may call high-caste colors,—ten thousand dingy flowers, then one with the divine streak; or, if you prefer it, like the coming up in old Jacob’s garden of that most gentlemanly little fruit, the seckel pear, which I have sometimes seen in shop-windows.
All this does not touch the main fact: our scholars come chiefly from a privileged order, just as our best fruits come from well-known grafts, though now and then a seedling apple, like the Northern Spy, or a seedling pear, like the Seckel, springs from a nameless ancestry and grows to be the pride of all the gardens in the land.
This lady was said to have a few drops of genuine aboriginal blood in her veins; and it is certain that her cheek had a little of the russet tinge which a Seckel pear shows on its warmest cheek when it blushes.--Love shuts itself up in sympathy like a knife-blade in its handle, and opens as easily.
The advent of genius is like what florists style the BREAKING of a seedling tulip into what we may call high-caste colors,--ten thousand dingy flowers, then one with the divine streak; or, if you prefer it, like the coming up in old Jacob's garden of that most gentlemanly little fruit, the seckel pear, which I have sometimes seen in shop-windows.
Pears--Clapp's Favorite (to be gathered August 20), Bartlett, Seckel, Sheldon, Beurre Bosc, Buerre d'Anjou, and Vicar of Winkfield for baking, etc.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, S&S, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2011).