PUCERON

  

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PUCERON

Definition: PUCERON

PUCERON

Noun

1. Any plant louse, or aphis.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Puceron \Pu"ce*ron\, noun. [French expression, from puce flea. See Puce.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PUCERON

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deterioration

Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PUCERON

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

French (aphid).

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Expression: PUCERON

Expression using "PUCERON": wood puceron. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PUCERON

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

puceron

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "PUCERON"

Words rhyming with "PUCERON" (pronounced 'Pu"ce*ron'): Acheron, Aileron, Almendron, Andiron, Andron, Apastron, Apron, Beakiron, boron, Box-iron, Caldron, Cascaron, Cast-iron, Catopron, Chaldron, Chamfron, Charon, Chawdron, Chevron, Chiliahedron, Citron, Cobiron, Coelectron, Cubo-octahedron, Decahedron, Decameron, Deltohedron, flatiron, Fleuron, gridiron, Hemihedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, Lepidodendron, Leucadendron, macron, makaron, Making-iron, Marron, matron, Mesenteron, micron, millimicron, moneron, Monotessaron, Natron, neuron, Nycthemeron, Octaemeron, Octahedron. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PUCERON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pouncer.

Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-p-r-u"

-1 letter: crepon, croupe, pounce, recoup.

-2 letters: copen, coper, cornu, coupe, crone, croup, ounce, ponce, prone, prune, recon, rouen.

-3 letters: cero, cone, cope, core, corn, coup, crop, cure, curn, ecru, euro, nope, once, open, peon, pone, pore, porn, pour, puce, pure, repo, rope, roue, roup, rune, unco, upon.

-4 letters: cep, con, cop, cor, cue, cup, cur.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: pouncers.

 

+2 letters: corpulent, porcupine, pronounce, pronuclei, recouping, uncoupler, uncropped.

 

+3 letters: compounder, corpulence, corpulency, counterspy, countertop, cowpuncher, percussion, pernicious, porcupines, precaution, preclusion, procumbent, pronounced, pronouncer, pronounces, pronuclear, pronucleus, proscenium, recoupling, recoupment, sunporches, supersonic, supertonic, uncouplers, unproduced.

 

+4 letters: aponeurotic, compounders, computernik, corpulences, corpulently, corruptness, countercoup, counterpane, counterpart, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, counterplot, counterploy, counterpose, counterstep, countertops, cowpunchers, cupronickel, incorrupted, intercouple, mucoprotein, neuroleptic, neuropathic, neurotropic, noncomputer, outcapering, percussions, perfunctory, persecution, pococurante, polynuclear, preannounce, precautions, preclusions, preconquest, prefocusing, preluncheon, procrustean, procurement, pronouncers, prosceniums, prosecuting, prosecution, recomputing, recoupments, reoccupying, reproducing, scuppernong, supersonics, supertonics, unprocessed, unprotected.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PUCERON


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

50 55 43 45 52 4F 4E

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)

01010000 01010101 01000011 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#85 &#67 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0055 0043 0045 0052 004F 004E

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

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

50553739524948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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