Crossword-Solution: SMILAX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Smilax | n. | A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. |
| Smilax | n. | A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SMILAX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dense-growing shrub that sounds like a prescription drug that makes you feel happy | 1 answer |
| Dinner-table decoration. | 1 answer |
| Shrub that sounds happy | 1 answer |
| type of climbing shrub | 1 answer |
| Liliaceous plant | 4 answers |
| Woody vine | 5 answers |
| twining plant | 18 answers |
| Flowering plant. | 37 answers |
| GREENHOUSE plant | 52 answers |
| Garden plant. | 53 answers |
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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
ZCEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SMILAX (5)
Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; Ð called also knee holly.
This floweriness is maintained with delightful variety all the way up through rocks and bushes to the snow—violets, lilies, gilias, oenotheras, wallflowers, ivesias, saxifrages, smilax, and miles of blooming bushes, chiefly azalea, honeysuckle, brier rose, buckthorn, and eriogonum, all meeting and blending in divine accord.
They bore it into a large, unheated room that smelled of dampness and disuse and furniture polish, and set it down under a hanging lamp ornamented with jingling glass prisms and before a “Rogers group” of John Alden and Priscilla, wreathed with smilax.
Then, from the centre chandelier to the four corners of the table, were strings of green smilax in which had been entwined carnations of various colors.
There was no one there to stop me, so I yanked the tinkler--pulled the bell--and drifted into the room where the corpse lay all among the roses and smilax.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1945–2018).