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ALLOTRIOPHAGY

Definition: ALLOTRIOPHAGY

ALLOTRIOPHAGY

Noun

1. A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: ALLOTRIOPHAGY

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

Danish

  

allotriofagi (licking sickness, pica), pica (licking sickness, pica, twelve-point). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

allotriophagia (licking sickness, pica), allotriofagie (licking sickness, pica), pica (licking sickness, pica), likzucht (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

outojen aineiden syömähimo (licking sickness, pica), muun kuin normaalin ruoan syömähimo (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

   

French

  

allotriophagie, pica. (various references)

   

German

  

Allotriophagie (licking sickness, pica), Lecksucht (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλλοτριοφαγία (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

   

Italian

  

allotriofagia (licking sickness, pica), pica (licking sickness, perverted appetite, pica). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

異食症 (pica). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いしょくしょう (pica). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allotriophagyay

   

Portuguese

  

alotriófagia (licking sickness, pica), picacismo (licking sickness, pica), pica (licking sickness, paint and plaster) favours lead poisoning, paper, pica, pica (an appetite for nonfood items such as dirt, raiser), malacia (licking sickness, pica), depravação do apetite (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pica (blasting, coal-getting, getting, licking sickness, mining, pica, pike, stoping, streak, winning), malacia (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

allotriofagi (licking sickness, pica), picasyndrom (licking sickness, pica), pica (licking sickness, pica). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ALLOTRIOPHAGY"

Words rhyming with "ALLOTRIOPHAGY" (pronounced 'Al`lo*tri*oph"a*gy'): Aciurgy, Acology, Actinology, Adenology, Aerolithology, Aerology, Agnoiology, Agriology, Agrostology, Aitiology, Alethiology, Algology, Alogy, Amphibiology, Amphibology, Anagogy, Analogy, Anemology, Angelology, Angiology, Anthology, Anthropology, Anthropophagy, Antilogy, Apiology, Arachnology, Archaeology, Archelogy, Aretology, Aristology, Arteriology, Arthrology, Assyriology, Astrolithology, Astrology, Astrometeorology, Astrotheology, Atheology, Atmology, Atmospherology, Atomology, Autophagy, Bacteriology, Baggy, Balneology, Barology, Battology, Bibliology, Bibliopegy, Bilgy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ALLOTRIOPHAGY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-r-t-y"

-3 letters: prothallia.

-4 letters: alligator, allograph, allopatry, allotropy, haplology, lithology, palliator, partially, pathology, philology, prothalli.

-5 letters: allopath, apiology, apologal, apologia, atrophia, gallipot, lothario, paltrily, plagiary, playgirl, polarity, polygala, polyglot, triglyph, trollopy, troopial.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: topographically.

 

+3 letters: orthographically, photographically.

 

+4 letters: anthropologically.

 

+5 letters: autobiographically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ALLOTRIOPHAGY


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

41 4C 4C 4F 54 52 49 4F 50 48 41 47 59

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 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001111 01010000 01001000 01000001 01000111 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#79 &#80 &#72 &#65 &#71 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004C 004F 0054 0052 0049 004F 0050 0048 0041 0047 0059

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

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

35464649545243495042354159

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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