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Anura

Definition: Anura

Anura

Noun

1. Frogs, toads, tree toads.

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

Date "Anura" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Anura

DomainDefinitions

Health

An order of the class Amphibia, which includes several families of frogs and toads. They are characterized by well developed hind limbs adapted for jumping, fused head and trunk and webbed toes. The term "toad" is ambiguous and is properly applied only to the family Bufonidae. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Anura

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Anura is the order of animals in the class Amphibia that includes frogs and toads. Although distinctions can be made between frogs and toads, those distinctions have no scientific status.

The living Anura are typically divided into three suborders.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anura."

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Synonyms: Anura

Synonyms: order Anura (n), order Batrachia (n), order Salientia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Anura

English words defined with "Anura": Anouraorder Anura. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Anura" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (frogs, horned toad, tail-less, tail-less amphibians, toad, Toad fighting, toads, tree toads).

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Commercial Usage: Anura

DomainTitle

Books

  • Anura Baònòdåaranåayaka (reference)

  • The frogs of the Kruger National Park : a guide to a group of vertebrate animals known as Amphibia-order Anura (Salientia) of the Kruger National Park (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Anura

"Anura" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Anura" is used about 4 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 (proper)75%3202,518
Noun (singular)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Expression: Anura

Expression using "Anura": order Anura. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Anura

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

anura

10

anura order

3
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Derivations: Anura

Derivations

Words beginning with "Anura": anural, anuran, anurans. (additional references)

Words containing "Anura": thysanuran, thysanurans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Anura"

Words rhyming with "Anura" (pronounced 'A*nu"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dura, Durra, ERA, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, hegira, Laura, Legatura, lira, Lyra, Macrura, Madeira, Madrepora, Masora, Millepora, Mira. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Anura

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ruana.

Words within the letters "a-a-n-r-u"

-1 letter: aura.

-2 letters: ana, ran, run, urn.

-3 letters: aa, an, ar, na, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: anural, anuran, anuria, purana, ranula, ruanas, urania.

 

+2 letters: angular, annular, anurans, anurias, arcanum, guarani, lacunar, lupanar, manuary, natural, pandura, puranas, quartan, ranulae, ranulas, runaway, saurian, unaware, uranias.

 

+3 letters: aeronaut, anovular, aquarian, arbutean, arcanums, argonaut, aurorean, binaural, cannular, carnauba, graduand, granular, guaranis, guaranty, guardant, guardian, harangue, lacunars, lacunary, lunarian, lupanars, macruran, manubria, manurial, monaural, naturals, pagurian, panduras, planular, quadrans, quadrant, quandary, quartans, quatrain, rambutan, runagate, runaways, saturant, saurians, unafraid, unawares, vanguard.

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Alternative Orthography: Anura


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

41 6E 75 72 61

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 01101110 01110101 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#110 &#117 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0075 0072 0061

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

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

3580878467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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