Crossword-Solution: SOLANUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Solanum | n. | A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOLANUM | anagram | SOULMAN |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SOLANUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| any plant of the genus that includes the potato | 1 answer |
| nightshade | 8 answers |
| HERBACEOUS plant (genus) | 21 answers |
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Sentences with SOLANUM (5)
The name is often given to the fruit of Solanum Sodom‘um, a prickly shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.
Excellent blackberries and a very large and full-flavored black raspberry grow at Newera Ellia; likewise the Cape gooseberry, which is of the genus "solanum." The latter is a round yellow berry, the size of a cherry; this is enclosed in a loose bladder, which forms an outer covering.
The best evidence, however, that the twisting does not cause the revolving movement is afforded by many leaf-climbing and tendril-bearing plants (as _Pisum sativum_, _Echinocystis lobata_, _Bignonia capreolata_, _Eccremocarpus scaber_, and with the leaf-climbers, _Solanum jasminoides_ and various species of _Clematis_), of which the internodes are not twisted, but which, as we shall hereafter see, regularly perform revolving movements like those of true twining-plants.
This fact has been well shown by Dutrochet, {19} who found different individuals of _Solanum dulcamara_ twining in opposite directions, and these had their leaves in each case spirally arranged in the same direction.
The _Solanum dulcamara_, as we shall presently see, can twine only round stems which are both thin and flexible.