Cryptobiosis

  

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Cryptobiosis

Definition: Cryptobiosis

Cryptobiosis

Noun

1. A state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill.

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


Crosswords: Cryptobiosis

English words defined with "cryptobiosis": cryptobiotic. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cryptobiosis

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

cryptobiosis

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Cryptobiosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-i-i-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-y"

-3 letters: isotropic, proboscis, spiritoso, sporocyst.

-4 letters: bioscopy, biotypic, bistroic, copyists, isospory, isotopic, isotropy, isotypic, porosity, porticos, postboys, robotics, topcross.

-5 letters: biopics, biopsic, bioptic, biotics, bistros, copyist, cryptos, isotopy, oboists, octrois, oocysts, piosity, pissoir, portico, postboy, potboys, probits, probity, pyritic, pyrosis, riposts, robotic, scripts, scroops, soritic, spirits, strobic, tropics, tsooris.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cryptobiosis


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

43 72 79 70 74 6F 62 69 6F 73 69 73

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)

01000011 01110010 01111001 01110000 01110100 01101111 01100010 01101001 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#114 &#121 &#112 &#116 &#111 &#98 &#105 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0072 0079 0070 0074 006F 0062 0069 006F 0073 0069 0073

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

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

378491828681687581857585

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INDEX

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


  

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