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Agrostis

Definition: Agrostis

Agrostis

Noun

1. Annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland).

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



Synonym: Agrostis

Synonym: genus Agrostis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Agrostis

English words defined with "Agrostis": Agrostis alba, Agrostis canina, Agrostis nebulosa, Agrostis palustrisgenus AgrostisWindlestrawYellowtop. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Agrostis" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (agrostis, bent grass).

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Image Slideshow: Agrostis

Illustrations:
Agrostis

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Expressions: Agrostis

Expressions using "Agrostis": Agrostis alba agrostis canina agrostis nebulosa agrostis palustris Agrostis scabra Agrostis vulgaris genus Agrostis. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Agrostis": Agrostis-festuca.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Agrostis

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

agrostis tenuis

7

agrostis

4

agrostis scabra

3

agrostis stolonifera

3

agrostis alba

2

agrostis brown patch stolonifera

2

agrostis rhizoctonia solani

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

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Modern Translations: Agrostis

Language Translations for "Agrostis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hvene (bent grass). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

struisgras (bent, bent grass). (various references)

   

French

  

agrostide. (various references)

   

German

  

Straussgras (bent grass). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγριάδα (bent grass, bur, burr, ferocity, wildness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חלית. (various references)

   

Italian

  

agrostide (bent grass). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agrostisay

   

Portuguese

  

agróstide (bent grass). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agrostis (bent grass). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Agrostis

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Agrostides, Agrostis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Agrostis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-o-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: aorists, aristos, satoris.

-2 letters: agists, aorist, argots, aristo, assort, gators, gratis, griots, grists, groats, ratios, roasts, satori, sistra, sitars, staigs, stairs, trigos, tsoris.

-3 letters: agios, agist, airts, argot, arsis, astir, gaits, gasts, gator, giros, girts, gists, goats, grass, griot, grist, grits, groat, gross, grots, iotas, oasis, oasts, ossia, ostia, ragis, ratio, ratos, riots, roast, rotas, rotis, sagos, saris, saros, satis, sitar, soars, soras, sorts, stags, staig, stair, stars, stirs, stoai, stoas, stria, taros, tarsi, tiros, togas, toras, torsi, tragi, trass, trigo, trigs, trios, trois, tsars.

-4 letters: agio, airs, airt, aits, arts, gait, gars, gast, gats, giro, girt, gist, gits, goas, goat, grat, grit, grot, iota, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, ossa, ragi, rags, rato, rats, rias, rigs, riot, rota, roti, rots, sago, sags, sari, sati, sirs, sits, soar, sora, sori, sort, sots, sris, stag, star, stir, stoa, tags, taos, taro, tars, tass, tiro, toga, togs, tora, tori, tors, toss, trig, trio, tsar.

-5 letters: ago, air, ais, ait, ars, art, ass, gar, gas, gat, git, goa, gor, gos, got, its, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, rag, ras, rat, ria, rig, rot, sag, sat, sir, sis, sit, sos, sot, sri, tag, tao, tar, tas, tis, tog, tor.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: assorting, isografts, organists.

 

+2 letters: glossarist, histograms.

 

+3 letters: agronomists, allegorists, astrologies, castigators, categorises, designators, gastroliths, glossarists, instigators, legislators, nasogastric, organicists, ostracising, reassorting, signatories, transposing.

 

+4 letters: gastronomies, gastronomist, gastroscopic, gastrotrichs, grossularite, ignorantness, nitrogenases, overcastings, postorgasmic, postsurgical, prognathisms, protagonists, radiologists, regionalists, resignations, segregations, stigmasterol, subrogations.

 

+5 letters: antiestrogens, archeologists, atherogenesis, cardiologists, cosignatories, crosshatching, festivalgoers, gastrectomies, gastrocnemius, gastronomists, gastroscopies, gastroscopist, gastrulations, geostrategies, geostrategist, gesticulators, grandiosities, graphologists, grossularites, introgressant, investigators, mineralogists, organisations, overasserting, papyrologists, phraseologist, polygraphists, propagandists, registrations, sharpshooting, somersaulting, sportscasting, stenographies, stigmasterols, stylographies, subcategories, teratogenesis, teratologists, transgression, trapshootings, urbanologists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Agrostis


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

41 67 72 6F 73 74 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)

01000001 01100111 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 0072 006F 0073 0074 0069 0073

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

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

3573848185867585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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