Crossword-Solution: SPHAGNUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sphagnum | n. | A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SPHAGNUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| HORTICULTURE-used soil conditioner | 1 answer |
| Moss for potting plants | 1 answer |
| Moss used by gardeners and surgeons | 1 answer |
| Peat moss prized by gardeners | 1 answer |
| Prime material for potting plants | 1 answer |
| PEAT moss | 3 answers |
| type of moss | 4 answers |
| PEAT, type of | 7 answers |
| Ceylonese moss | 12 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPHAGNUM (5)
The absorption of animal matter from captured insects explains how Drosera can flourish in extremely poor peaty soil,—in some cases where nothing but [page 18] sphagnum moss grows, and mosses depend altogether on the atmosphere for their nourishment.
Cellulose.—I did not obtain this substance in a separate state, but tried angular bits of dry wood, cork, sphagnum moss, linen, and cotton thread.
Nat." tome 6 Lausanne 1860.) The lowest stratum, 2 to 3 feet thick, consists of swamp-peat composed chiefly of moss or sphagnum, above which lies another growth of peat, not made up exclusively of aquatic or swamp plants.
Transplanted to the home garden in closely packed, generous clumps, with plenty of leaf mould, or, better still, chopped sphagnum, about them, they soon spread into thick mats in the rockery, the hardy fernery, or about the roots of rhododendrons and the taller shrubs that permit some sunlight to reach them.
The pockets are filled with good fibrous moisture-holding earth, and often a little sphagnum or other moss is added.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1984–1997).