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Acrostichum Aureum

Definition: Acrostichum Aureum

Acrostichum Aureum

Noun

1. Stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides.

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Specialty Definitions: Acrostichum Aureum

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Botanical

Young leaves and fiddleheads are edible raw or cooked. The leaves are emollients, sometimes used for thatch; rhizomes vulnerary. The Cuna use the young fiddleheads to extract fish bones from the throat (!). The plant is used as a medicinal bath for infants (!). (references)

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Synonyms: Acrostichum Aureum

Synonyms: golden fern (n), leather fern (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Acrostichum Aureum

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

Latin (Mangrove fern).

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Anagrams: Acrostichum Aureum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-5 letters: crematoriums.

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Alternative Orthography: Acrostichum Aureum


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

41 63 72 6F 73 74 69 63 68 75 6D      41 75 72 65 75 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101000 01110101 01101101 00100000 01000001 01110101 01110010 01100101 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#104 &#117 &#109 &#32 &#65 &#117 &#114 &#101 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0072 006F 0073 0074 0069 0063 0068 0075 006D      0041 0075 0072 0065 0075 006D

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

35698481858675697487792358784718779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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