Anagrams of: BASSARISCUS_

• of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era

• the period from 190 million to 135 million years ago; distinguished by dinosaurs and conifers

• flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

• a soft padded sofa

• an unfledged pigeon

• short and fat

• 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani in Oman

• a street of small shops (especially in Orient)

• a shop where a variety of goods are sold

• a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan

• a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma

• handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark

• firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise

• A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.

• (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.

• (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.

• (by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.