Crossword-Solution: WARTED 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The cactus had nearly done blooming now, and its ever-listening ears were absurdly warted with fruit; gorgeous carpets of bluebonnets were spread beside the ditches, while the air above was filled with thousands of yellow butterflies, like whirling, wind-blown petals of the prickly-pear blossom.

Though generally cultivated for ornament, and considered more curious than useful, "some of them are the very best of the summer squashes for table use; far superior to either the scolloped or warted varieties." When trained as directed for the Egg-squash, it is equally showy and attractive.

Its twin faces were warted with rocks, from which most of the soil had been washed away, leaving them as though suspended in mid-air.

Tenderly she took the reptile in her fingers, for she loved this warted monster who seemed by the turn of his head to reciprocate in some way the devotion the girl showered upon him.

The skin of the back and the long stiff tail, instead of being warted like the true toad's upper surface, is set with thorny excrescences.