Crossword-Solution: ZEDOARY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Zedoary | n. | A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ZEDOARY | anagram | ZERODAY |
We have 3 clues for the answer “ZEDOARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INDIAN drug | 1 answer |
| INDIAN stimulant drug | 1 answer |
| ROOT substance | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ZEDOARY (5)
And all carried rue and wormwood in their hands, and myrrh and zedoary in their mouths, as protection against infection.
The fortress also contained a garrison, armory, chapels, stables, forge, wardrobe for a tailor's workroom and secure storage of valuable clothes, silver plate, and expensive imports such as sugar, rice, almonds, dried fruits, cinnamon, saffron, ginger, galingale, zedoary, pepper, nutmeg, and mace.
These may be composed of any mixtures of the following articles:--flowers, dried and pounded; powdered cloves, mace, nutmeg, cinnamon; leaves--dried and pounded--of mint, balm, dragon-wort, southernwood, ground-ivy, laurel, hyssop, sweet marjoram, origanum, rosemary; woods, such as cassia, juniper, rhodium, sandal-wood, and rosewood; roots of angelica, zedoary, orris; all the fragrant balsams--ambergris, musk, and civet.
The old London Pharmacopoeia gave a simpler receipt, in which the ingredients were zedoary and saffron, distilled with crabs' claws, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom seeds, and sugar.
Let the Panchæan land[42] be rich in amomum, and let it produce cinnamon, and its zedoary,[43] and frankincense distilling from its tree, and its other flowers, so long as it produces the myrrh-tree, as well.