Crossword-Solution: SPURGES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPURGES | anagram | SUPERGS |
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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
MACEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPURGES (5)
The first noiseless breeze of morning, cautiously stirring the spurges and the brown stalks of last year’s grass, fluttered along the road.
But what people take for thickets of cactus in the Indian jungle are really thickets of cactus-like spurges.
All the Spurges possess the same poisonous principle, which may, however, be readily dissipated by heat; and then, in many instances, the root becomes a nourishing and palatable food.
The whole tribe of Spurges contains two hundred genera, and forms, what we call now-a-days, "a large order." The roots of several common kinds are used in making quack medicines, which are unsafe, [534] and violent in action.
Chemically, most of the Spurges contain caoutchouc, resin, gallic acid, and their particular acrid principle which has not been fully defined.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–1981).