Osteostraci

  

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Osteostraci

Definition: Osteostraci

Osteostraci

Noun

1. Extinct group of armored fishlike vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Osteostraci

Synonyms: suborder Cephalaspida (n), suborder Osteostraci (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Osteostraci

English words defined with "Osteostraci": suborder Osteostraci. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Osteostraci

"Osteostraci" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Osteostraci" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

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

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Expression: Osteostraci

Expression using "Osteostraci": suborder Osteostraci. Additional references.

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

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Anagrams: Osteostraci

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: corotates, ostracise, tortoises.

-3 letters: artistes, artsiest, astricts, citators, citrates, coarsest, coasters, corotate, cottiers, cristate, crosstie, ricottas, risottos, rootiest, scariest, scariose, scatters, scattier, scooters, scotties, sootiest, statices, striates, toasters, toastier, tootsies, tortoise, trisects.

-4 letters: actress, aorists, ariosos, aristos, artiest, artiste, artists, ascites, astrict, attires, casters, castors, cattier, catties, citator, citrate, coaster, coaters, cooters, cooties.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: autoeroticisms, consternations, orchestrations, prognosticates, tracheostomies, watercolorists.

 

+4 letters: bacteriologists, coinvestigators, conservationist, contrapositives, cooperationists, prostatectomies, sclerotizations, trisoctahedrons.

 

+5 letters: conservationists, controversialist, electroacoustics, interassociation, reorchestrations, vasoconstrictive.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Osteostraci


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

4F 73 74 65 6F 73 74 72 61 63 69

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)

---    ...    -    .    ---    ...    -    .-.    .-    -.-.    ..

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

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

01001111 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101111 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#99 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0073 0074 0065 006F 0073 0074 0072 0061 0063 0069

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

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

4985867181858684676975

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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