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OSAGE
(OH-sayj)
1.
North American River
2.
Indigenous people of North America
3.
Type of orange
Common
clues: Tributary of the Missouri; Lake of the Ozarks river;
Relative of an Omaha; Missouri feeder; Inedible orange; Plains
Indian; Indian or orange
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
4 times a year
Video:
Osage River
boat ride
The
Osage
River
is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 360 mi (579
km) long, in central Missouri in the United States. The largest
river entirely in Missouri, it drains a rural area of 15,300 sq
mi (39,600 km²) on the north edge of the Ozark Mountains
west to east across Missouri, with its watershed stretching into
eastern Kansas. It is impounded in two major locations such that
most of the river has been converted into a chain of two
reservoirs, the Harry S. Truman Reservoir and the Lake of the
Ozarks.
The
Osage
Nation
is a Native American tribe in the United States, which is mainly
based in Osage County, Oklahoma, but can still be found
throughout America.
The
Osage called themselves Wazházhe,
Children of the Middle Water. The name Osage
comes from a French corruption of the tribal name.
Their
Osage language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan
stock of Native American languages, now spoken in Nebraska and
Oklahoma. They originally lived among the Kansa, the Ponca, the
Omaha, and the Quapaw in the Ohio Valley. The tribe probably
separated from the closely-related Kansa not long before
Europeans first encountered them. The Osage developed a typical
Plains Indian culture with a distinctive tribal division between
meat-eating Wazhazhe and vegetarian Tsishu.
Many
of the Osage had migrated to the Osage River in western Missouri
by 1673, living near the Missouri River. Alongside the Kiowa,
Comanche, and Apache, they dominated over western Oklahoma. They
also lived with the Quapaw and Caddo in Arkansas.
Osage-orange,
Horse-apple, Bois D'Arc, or Bodark (Maclura pomifera) is a small
deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8–15
metres (26–49 ft) tall. It is dioeceous, with male and
female flowers on different plants. The fruit, a multiple fruit,
is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7–15 cm in diameter,
and it is filled with a sticky white latex sap. In fall, its
color turns a bright yellow-green and it has a faint odor similar
to that of oranges. It is not closely related to the citrus fruit
called an orange: Maclura belongs to the mulberry family,
Moraceae, while oranges belong to the family Rutaceae.
Maclura
is closely related to the genus Cudrania, and hybrids between the
two genera have been produced. In fact, some botanists recognize
a more broadly defined Maclura that includes species previously
included in Cudrania and other genera of Moraceae.
Osajin
and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and
fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant
also contains the flavonol morin.
Recent
research suggests that elemol, another component extractable from
the fruit, shows promise as a mosquito repellent with similar
activity to DEET in contact and residual repellency.
This
article is licensed under the GNU
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It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Osage River",
“Maclura_pomifera”,
and “Osage
Nation”
OSAGE
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26 We+ >1 07 Missouri feeder
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Tu+ >1 02 River to the Missouri
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Tu- >1 08 Missouri river
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We >1 98 Inedible orange
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Mo+ >1 08 Missouri tributary
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Tu+ >1 00 Kind of orange JAFFA NAVEL
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Th- >1 00 Indian or orange
6
Tu >1 07 Missouri River feeder
6
We- >1 08 Plains Indian KIOWA
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Tu+ >1 06 Type of orange NAVEL
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We- >1 97 ___ orange
5
Tu+ >1 06 Largest tributary of the Missouri
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Th >1 06 Oklahoma native CADDO
5
We+ >1 02 Oklahoma tribe KIOWA PONCA
5
Th- >1 06 Siouan language OMAHA
4
Mo >1 07 Plains tribe IOWAS KIOWA OMAHA OTOES
4
We >1 97 River through the Lake of the Ozarks
4
Fr- >1 02 Siouan tongue OMAHA
04
Midwestern Amerind
3
We NYT 08 Missouri River tributary
3
We >1 06 Oklahoma Indian CREEK
3
Mo+ >1 05 Orange variety NAVEL
3
Th- >1 01 The Missouri's largest tributary
2
Fr- NYT 07 Bagnell Dam river
2
Th- >1 05 Lake of the Ozarks river
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