Coleus

Definition: Coleus

Coleus

Noun

1. Any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers.

Etymology: Coleus \Co"le*us\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression sheath; -- referring to the manner in which the stamens are united.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Coleus

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	A large genus of showy foliage herbs of the mint family. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Coleus

Synonym: flame nettle (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Coleus

English words defined with "coleus": flame nettle, Foliage plant ♦ genus Plectranthus, genus Solenostemon ♦ Solenostemon. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Coleus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (bag, Coleus, Coleus forskohlii, sack).

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Usage Frequency: Coleus

"Coleus" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coleus" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (common)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Coleus

Expressions using "coleus": coleus amboinicus ♦ coleus aromaticus ♦ coleus blumei ♦ Coleus forskohlii ♦ genus Coleus. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coleus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
coleus	596	coleus forskohli	3
coleus forskohlii	43	canin coleus	3
coleus plant	37	coleus forskolii	3
canina coleus	22	coleus forskolin	2
coleus sun	15	coleus pest	2
blumei coleus	15	coleus hallucinogen	2
care coleus	7	coleus scented	2
coleus seed	5	barbatus coleus	2
coleus picture	4	coleus root	2
coleus flower	4	coleus height spread volcano	2
care coleus plant	4	grow coleus	2
coleus growing	4	coleus trailing	2
coleus forskohlii extract	3	black coleus dragon	2
coleus forskohii	3
		black coleus dragon	2
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Modern Translation: Coleus

Language		Translations for "coleus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		coleus. (various references)

Finnish		kirjopeippi. (various references)

French		Coleus. (various references)

German		Coleus, Buntnessel, Buntlippe. (various references)

Greek		κολέους, κολεός (sheath, vagina). (various references)

Italian		Coleus. (various references)

Pig Latin		oleuscay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Coleus

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Coleus. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Coleus

Derivations
	Words beginning with "coleus": coleuses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Coleus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acilius, caelus, celous, celsus, Choloepus, Cielos, Cilasun, cloau, cocleus, coelis, Coelius, coelobs, coeloms, coeurs, Coillabus, colea, coleous, coles, coletus, coleur, coleys, Colias, Colinus, colius, collegus, colles, Colleys, colneis, Colohus, colou, colous, Colpus, columus, couleur, culleys, Dollfus, Ocelus, olleus, soleus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coleus"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "coleus" (pronounced kō"lēus)
4	-l ē u s	alias, bilious, nucleus, punctilious, supercilious.
3	-ē u s	acrimonious, amphibious, aqueous, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hideous, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, previous, radius, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, studious, tedious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Anagrams: Coleus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: oscule.
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: close, clues, coles, locus, louse, luces, ousel, socle.
	-2 letters: cels, clue, cole, cols, cues, ecus, lose, luce, lues, oles, sloe, slue, sole, soul.
	-3 letters: cel, col, cos, cue, ecu, els, leu, oes, ole, ose, sec, sel, sol, sou, sue, use.
	-4 letters: el, es, lo, oe, os, so, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: boucles, cloques, closeup, closure, colures, coulees, counsel, couples, glucose, locules, ocellus, oscules, unclose.
	+2 letters: acaulose, beclouds, carousel, ciboules, clonuses, closeout, closeups, closured, closures, clotures, clouters, coequals, coleuses, coliseum, colludes, columels, convulse, corulers, couldest, coulises, coulisse, coulters, counsels, couplers, couplets, crousely, culottes, eclogues, flounces, glucoses, lacteous, lacunose, leucomas, locustae, noctules, nucleons, occludes, octuples, opuscule, osculate, sclerous, scopulae, selcouth, slouched, sloucher, slouches, ulcerous, unclosed, uncloses, vacuoles.
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