HOMOPLASMY

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HOMOPLASMY

Definition: HOMOPLASMY

HOMOPLASMY

Noun

1. Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Homoplasmy \Ho"mo*plas`my\, noun. [Homo- Greek expression anything formed, from to form, mold.]. (references)

Anagrams: HOMOPLASMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-l-m-m-o-o-p-s-y"
	-1 letter: homoplasy, lymphomas.
	-2 letters: lymphoma, omphalos, polyomas.
	-3 letters: hooplas, moolahs, oompahs, polyoma, shampoo.
	-4 letters: hommos, hoopla, lymphs, moolah, moolas, myomas, oompah, oomphs, plashy, poshly, saloop, shalom, shammy, shamoy, shoaly, sholom, yahoos.
	-5 letters: ammos, amply, amyls, halms, halos, hammy, haply, holms, homos, hooly, hoops, hoyas, hylas, hypos, lamps, loams, loamy, looms, loops, loopy, lymph, malms, malmy, mashy.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-l-m-m-o-o-p-s-y"
	+2 letters: lymphomatous.
	+3 letters: lymphomatoses, lymphomatosis, lymphosarcoma.
	+4 letters: lymphosarcomas.
	+5 letters: lymphosarcomata.
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Alternative Orthography: HOMOPLASMY

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 4F 4D 4F 50 4C 41 53 4D 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001111 01001101 01001111 01010000 01001100 01000001 01010011 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

H O M O P L A S M Y

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 004D 004F 0050 004C 0041 0053 004D 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42494749504635534759

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