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CAPRICORN BEETLE

Definition: CAPRICORN BEETLE

CAPRICORN BEETLE

1. (Zo["o]l.), any beetle of the family Carambucid[ae] ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larv[ae] usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shrubs and are often destructive. See Girdler , Pruner .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Modern Translations: CAPRICORN BEETLE

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

Dutch

  

heldenboktor (great capricorn beetle), heldenbok (great capricorn beetle), eikeboktor (great capricorn beetle), eikebok (great capricorn beetle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sankari (great capricorn beetle, hero). (various references)

   

French

  

petit capricorne. (various references)

   

German

  

kleiner Heldbock, Buchenbock. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μικρός κεράμβυξ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

piccolo capricorno. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apricorncay eetlebay

   

Spanish

  

capricornio pequeño. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mindre ekbock. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: CAPRICORN BEETLE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cerambyx scopolii. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: CAPRICORN BEETLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-r-t"

-2 letters: interoperable.

-3 letters: concelebrate, precentorial.

-4 letters: areocentric, celebration, cerebration, correctable, narcoleptic, preelection, preelectric, reciprocate.

-5 letters: celebrator, coelentera, coparcener, electronic, epicentral, inoperable, interloper, noticeable, penetrable, percentile, peritoneal, pratincole, preconcert, prelection, receptacle, reciprocal, reconciler, recreation, reelection, replicator, reportable, reprobance, terreplein.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAPRICORN BEETLE


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

43 41 50 52 49 43 4F 52 4E      42 45 45 54 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010000 01010010 01001001 01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000101 01010100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#80 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#79 &#82 &#78 &#32 &#66 &#69 &#69 &#84 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0050 0052 0049 0043 004F 0052 004E      0042 0045 0045 0054 004C 0045

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

3735505243374952482363939544639

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INDEX

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


  

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