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Definition: FUSTIC |
FUSTICNoun1. The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. |
Date "FUSTIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Etymology: Fustic \Fus"tic\, noun. [French expression fustoc, Spanish fustoc. Compare to Fustet.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: FUSTIC |
| English words defined with "FUSTIC": Moric, Morin, Morintannic ♦ Zantewood. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FUSTIC": Fisetin ♦ Morintannic. (references) |
Expressions using "FUSTIC": old fustic ♦ zante fustic. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "FUSTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farvemorbaertrae gultrae (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fustiekhout (common smoketree, Cuba wood, fustet, old fustic, smoke tree, yellow wood), fustiek (common smoketree, Cuba wood, fustet, old fustic, smoke tree, yellow wood), geelhout (common smoketree, Cuba wood, fustet, old fustic, smoke tree, yellow wood), cubahout (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), citroenhout (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | fustikki (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), keltapuu (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fustic (old fustic), tatajuba (old fustic), mutier des teinturiers (old fustic), bois jaune (fustet, old fustic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fustik (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Fisetholz (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Faerbermaulbeerbaum (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Tatajuba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Gelbholz (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), echtes Gelbholz (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Alter Fustik (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Fustetto vecchio (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), legno giallo (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), legno di Cuba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usticfay fustete, tatajuba, tatajiba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), tataÃba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), tataà (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) palo de mora (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), palo amarillo (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) fustikträd (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references) ต้นไม้เขตร้à¸à¸™à¸Šà¸™à¸´à¸"หนึ่ง. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chlorophora tinctoria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FUSTIC": fustics. (additional references) | |
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"FUSTIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: austic, fastish, Fesik, Fojtik, Forstich, Fosdick, fotic, Fusata, fuste, fustick, fustik, fustis, Hustwick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FUSTIC" (pronounced 'Fus"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-i-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cuifs, cutis, ficus, ictus. | |
-2 letters: cist, cuif, cuts, fisc, fist, fits, fuci, scut, sift, suit, tics, tuis. | |
-3 letters: cis, cut, fit, ifs, its, sic, sit, tic, tis, tui, uts. | |
-4 letters: if, is, it, si, ti, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-i-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fustics. | |
+2 letters: factious, stickful, sulfitic. | |
+3 letters: chuffiest, facetious, faculties, faunistic, fractious, fruticose, functions, scurfiest, stickfuls. | |
+4 letters: bifurcates, confitures, cuttlefish, fabulistic, factiously, factitious, factualism, factualist, felicitous, fictitious, fisticuffs, flounciest, fructifies, fruitcakes, fugacities, furcations, futuristic, infectious, jackfruits, scruffiest, sufficient, tubificids. | |
+5 letters: cafetoriums, centrifuges, cofunctions, disfunction, dysfunction, facetiously, factualisms, factualists, fasciculate, fecundities, feudalistic, fractiously, fungistatic, futuristics, lactiferous, misfunction, obfuscating, obfuscation, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, suffocating, suffocation, suffocative, superinfect, trifurcates, ultrafiches. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 55 53 54 49 43 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- ... - .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F U S T I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0055 0053 0054 0049 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)405553544337 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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