Crossword-Solution: VIOLACEOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Violaceous | a. | Resembling violets in color; bluish purple. |
| Violaceous | a. | Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VIOLACEOUS | anagram | OLIVACEOUS |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
AECZEM
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eruption
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Sentences with VIOLACEOUS (5)
The plant is social, and in some places where scarcely any other kind exists it covers large areas with a sea of fleecy-white plumes; in late summer, and in autumn, the tints are seen, varying from the most delicate rose, tender and illusive as the blush on the white under-plumage of some gulls, to purple and violaceous.
The scutellum and elytra are minutely punctured or chagrined, and hairy (except a small smooth oblong space on the shoulder of the latter) and are black with a violet tinge; in one specimen the elytra have scarcely any of the blue tinge, and the spot on the shoulder is of a ferruginous hue; the wings are violaceous.
Dermatitis Exfoliativa.] In another type of the disease, formerly described as _pityriasis rubra_, the skin is pale red or violaceous-red, but is rarely thickened, continued exfoliation in the form of thin plates taking place.
The lesions are pin-head to small pea-sized, irregularly grouped or so closely crowded together as to form solid patches; they are quadrangular or polygonal in shape, usually flat, with central depression or umbilication, and are reddish or violaceous in color.
When fully developed, the skin is harsh and dry, of a mottled, reddish or violaceous color, thickened, infiltrated and usually slightly scaly, with, at times, a tendency toward the formation of oozing areas.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1964).