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Definition: Crapaud |
CrapaudNoun1. Large toothed frog of South and Central America resembling the bullfrog. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Crapaud \Cra*paud"\, noun. [Written also crapawd, crapald, crepaud, etc.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Crapaud" is a common misspelling or typo for: Carped, Cramped, Crape, Crappie, Repaid, Scraped. |
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Literature | Crapaud or Johnny Crapaud. A Frenchman; so called from the device of the ancient kings of France, "three toads erect, saltant." (Guillim's Display of Heraldrie, 1611.) Nostradamus, in the sixteenth century, called the French "crapauds." Les anciens crapauds prenderont Sara (Nostradamus). Sara is the word Aras reversed, and when the French under Louis XIV. took Aras from the Spaniards, this verse was quoted as a prophecy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: CrapaudSynonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus (n), South American bullfrog (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crapaud |
| Specialty definitions using "crapaud": Colin Tampon ♦ Ivanovitch ♦ Jean Crapaud, Johnny Crapaud. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crapaud" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (toad). |
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Books | |
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Expressions using "crapaud": Johnny Crapaud ♦ Johny Crapaud. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crapaud | 12 |
crapaud jo le | 6 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: purda. | |
-3 letters: aura, card, carp, crap, crud, curd, dura, paca, para, pard, prau. | |
-4 letters: arc, cad, cap, car, cud, cup, cur, dap, dup, pac, pad, par, pud, pur, rad, rap, urd. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ar, pa, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-p-r-u" | |
+3 letters: parachuted. | |
+5 letters: appendicular, quadraphonic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 61 70 61 75 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. .- .--. .- ..- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01100001 01110000 01100001 01110101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r a p a u d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0061 0070 0061 0075 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37846782678770 |
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