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AMPHIBIUM

Definition: AMPHIBIUM

AMPHIBIUM

Noun

1. An amphibian.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AMPHIBIUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)

Etymology: Amphibium \Am*phib"i*um\, noun; plural Latin Amphibia; English Amphibiums. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression (sc. an animal). See Amphibious.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: AMPHIBIUM

English words defined with "AMPHIBIUM": AmphibiumsNasturtium amphibiumWater radish. (references)

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Usage Frequency: AMPHIBIUM

"AMPHIBIUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMPHIBIUM" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: AMPHIBIUM

Expression using "AMPHIBIUM": nasturtium amphibium. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AMPHIBIUM

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

  amphibium polygonum

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

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Rhyming with "AMPHIBIUM"

Words rhyming with "AMPHIBIUM" (pronounced 'Am*phib"i*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum, Ascidiarium. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AMPHIBIUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-i-m-m-p-u"

-4 letters: bimah, bumph, iambi, imaum.

-5 letters: bima, bump, habu, hump, iamb, imam, impi, maim, mump, pima, puma.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AMPHIBIUM


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

41 4D 50 48 49 42 49 55 4D

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 01001101 01010000 01001000 01001001 01000010 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#77 &#80 &#72 &#73 &#66 &#73 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004D 0050 0048 0049 0042 0049 0055 004D

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

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

354750424336435547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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