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CALICOBACK

Definition: CALICOBACK

CALICOBACK

Noun

1. An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.

2. The calico bass.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: CALICOBACK

English words defined with "CALICOBACK": Calico bass. (references)

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Image Slideshow: CALICOBACK

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Anagrams: CALICOBACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-c-i-k-l-o"

-4 letters: alcaic, boccia, calcic, calico, cicala, cloaca, coccal.

-5 letters: abaci, aback, aboil, acock, alack, bacca, black, block, bocci, cabal, cacao, cibol, clack, click, cloak, clock, coala, cobia, cocci, colic, kibla, koala, labia.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CALICOBACK


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

43 41 4C 49 43 4F 42 41 43 4B

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)

01000011 01000001 01001100 01001001 01000011 01001111 01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#79 &#66 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004C 0049 0043 004F 0042 0041 0043 004B

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

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

37354643374936353745

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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