MATTOWACCA

  

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MATTOWACCA

Definition: MATTOWACCA

MATTOWACCA

Noun

1. An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Mattowacca \Mat`to*wac"ca\, noun. [Indian name.]. (Websters 1913)


Photo Album: MATTOWACCA

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Plate 216A. The Hickory Shad or Mattowacca. (Male.) Clupea mediocris, Mitch.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "MATTOWACCA"

Words rhyming with "MATTOWACCA" (pronounced 'Mat`to*wac"ca'): Anasarca, Arctisca, Areca, Asarabacca, Attacca, Baraca, Barranca, Bibliotheca, Bocca, Chachalaca, Chica, Cloaca, Coca, Cuca, Dactylotheca, Dertrotheca, Endotheca, Epitheca, Erica, Eruca, Exotheca, Felucca, Fistuca, Formica, Glyptotheca, Gnathotheca, Gonotheca, Hierotheca, Hippobosca, Hydrotheca, Hypotheca, Inca, Jararaca, Lactuca, Lectica, lorica, malacca, Manca, Mesotheca, mica, Mollusca, Musca, Myrica, Noctiluca, Oca, Ootheca, paca, Pataca, Perca, Phoca. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MATTOWACCA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-m-o-t-t-w"

-3 letters: toccata.

-4 letters: macaco, tomcat.

-5 letters: cacao, coact, cotta, macaw.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MATTOWACCA


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

4D 41 54 54 4F 57 41 43 43 41

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)

01001101 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001111 01010111 01000001 01000011 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#79 &#87 &#65 &#67 &#67 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0054 0054 004F 0057 0041 0043 0043 0041

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

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

47355454495735373735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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