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Acanthocephalan

Definition: Acanthocephalan

Acanthocephalan

Noun

1. Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines.

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

Synonym: Acanthocephalan

Synonym: spiny-headed worm (n). (additional references)

Modern Translations: Acanthocephalan

Language		Translations for "acanthocephalan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		acanthocephalanay.(various references)

Spanish		acantocéfalo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Acanthocephalan

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acanthocephalan": acanthocephalans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Acanthocephalan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acanthocephala. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Acanthocephalan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-e-h-h-l-n-n-o-p-t"
	-5 letters: coelacanth.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-e-h-h-l-n-n-o-p-t"
	+1 letter: acanthocephalans.
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Alternative Orthography: Acanthocephalan

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

41 63 61 6E 74 68 6F 63 65 70 68 61 6C 61 6E

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)

01000001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01101111 01100011 01100101 01110000 01101000 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#99 &#101 &#112 &#104 &#97 &#108 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0061 006E 0074 0068 006F 0063 0065 0070 0068 0061 006C 0061 006E

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

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

356967808674816971827467786780

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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