Emollient-yielding plants

The answer

ALOES

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALOES answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALOES

Every other clue in this collection answered by ALOES, most used first.

• Medicinal plants - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Fugard's "A Lesson From ___" - used 41 times, most recently in 2015
• African lilies - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Healing plants - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
• Bitter drug - used 25 times, most recently in 2008
• Lily plants - used 20 times, most recently in 2006
• Succulent plants - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Soothing plants - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• "A Lesson From ___" - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Soothing succulents - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Lotion ingredients - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• Therapeutic plants - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• Athol Fugard's "A Lesson From ___" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Century plants - used 14 times, most recently in 2005
• Shade of green - used 14 times, most recently in 1992
• Spiny houseplants - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Burn soothers - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Eaglewood - used 9 times, most recently in 1991
• Lotion additives - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Skin soothers - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Palliative plants - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Some succulents - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Spiny-leaved plants - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Spiny plants - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• "A Lesson from ___" (Fugard drama) - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• "A Lesson From __" (Fugard play) - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Agalloch - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Fleshy plants - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Skin lotion ingredients - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Succulents that soothe - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Desert plants - CACTI, used 73 times
• Prickly plants - CACTI, used 67 times
• Marsh plants - REEDS, used 52 times
• Climbing plants - IVIES, used 45 times
• Flowerless plants - FERNS, used 27 times
• Spiny plants - CACTI, used 27 times

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