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CAPILLACEOUS

Definition: CAPILLACEOUS

CAPILLACEOUS

Adjective

1. Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Capillaceous \Cap`il*la"ceous\, adjective. [Latin expression capillaceus hairy, from capillus hair.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Modern Translations: CAPILLACEOUS

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

Albanian

  

kapilar (capillary). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тънък като косъм. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hajszálcsöves (capillary). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apillaceouscay

   

Portuguese

  

capiláceos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

капиллярный (capillary). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kapilarni (capillary). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

como capilar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kapillär (capillary, capillary tube), hårfin (capillary, hair's breadth, subtle), hår- (capillary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CAPILLACEOUS

Misspellings

"CAPILLACEOUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ampulaceous. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "CAPILLACEOUS"

Words rhyming with "CAPILLACEOUS" (pronounced 'Cap`il*la"ceous'): Acanthaceous, Acinaceous, Alliaceous, Alutaceous, Amarantaceous, Amentaceous, Ampullaceous, Amygdalaceous, Amylaceous, Anacardiaceous, Anonaceous, Apiaceous, Araceous, Arenaceous, Argillaceous, Arundinaceous, Asclepiadaceous, Atramentaceous, Aurantiaceous, Avenaceous, Bignoniaceous, Boraginaceous, Brassicaceous, Bromeliaceous, Bulbaceous, Butyraceous, Byssaceous, Cactaceous, Calcareo-siliceous, Campanulaceous, Camphoraceous, Caryophyllaceous, Cepaceous, Ceraceous, Cetaceous, Chartaceous, Chylaceous, Cichoraceous, Cinchonaceous, Cineraceous, Confervaceous, Convolvulaceous, Corallaceous, Coriaceous, Corollaceous, Croceous, Crustaceous, Cucurbitaceous, Cycadaceous, Cylindraceous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CAPILLACEOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-l-l-o-p-s-u"

-2 letters: alliaceous.

-3 letters: alopecias, calliopes, capacious, caulicles.

-4 letters: acaulose, aciculae, aciculas, allspice, alopecia, alopecic, calicles, calicoes, calliope, caulicle, collapse, escallop, localise, occlusal, occupies, pollices, scapulae, scopulae, spiculae.

-5 letters: accusal, acicula, alcaics, apicals, asocial, auspice, calculi, calices, calicle, calicos, callose, callous, calpacs, capsule, celiacs, celosia, cicalas, clausal, cloacae, cloacal, cloacas, closeup, coeliac, collies, copulae, copulas, couples.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAPILLACEOUS


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

43 41 50 49 4C 4C 41 43 45 4F 55 53

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 01010000 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01000011 01000101 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#80 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#69 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0050 0049 004C 004C 0041 0043 0045 004F 0055 0053

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

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

373550434646353739495553

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INDEX

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


  

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