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Centre Of Nest Remains As Orifice Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is TREMA which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: TREMA

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199%5Exact Match!
227%5 Leaf orifice
327%4 Minute orifice

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We think the answer is "TREMA" which means:

    noun
  • • An evergreen tree of the family ulmaceae that grows in tropical america and africa and asia

An example sentence would be:

  • • "The trema in the word naïve indicates that both vowels are to be pronounced individually."
  • • "The trema is commonly used in german to indicate umlauted vowels."

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The Guardian Cryptic15 Feb 2005 Down 2
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