Crossword-Solution: VALVATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Valvate | a. | Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular. |
| Valvate | a. | Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation. |
| Valvate | a. | Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with VALVATE (5)
From _Uvaria_ the _Cananga_ differs in its valvate petals, and from _Unona_ in the arrangement of the seeds in two rows.
Stravadium has very minute stipules, the habit and gemmation is that of Ternstraemiaceae, and it perhaps connects this order with Myrtaceae; Punica from this is certainly distinct, owing praeter alia to its valvate calyx.
Cones globular, with peltate, valvate scales, firmly closed till ripe; the scales thick and pointed at the center.
When they do not overlap, the æstivation is _Valvate_, when the pieces meet each other by their abrupt edges, without any infolding or overlapping; as the calyx of the Linden or Basswood (Fig.
Diagram of a flower of Linden, showing the calyx valvate and corolla imbricate in the bud, etc.] _Induplicate_, which is valvate with the margins of each piece projecting inwards, as in the calyx of a common Virgin's-bower, Fig.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).