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CARABUS

Definition: CARABUS

CARABUS

Noun

1. A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Carabus \Car"a*bus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression horned beetle.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: CARABUS

English words defined with "CARABUS": Caraboid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CARABUS": Misnomers. (references)

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Modern Usage: CARABUS

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Vagabonzii de la Carabus (1927)

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

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Commercial Usage: CARABUS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Genus Carabus I in Europe: A Synthesis (Fauna Europaea Evertebrata, 2) (reference)

  • Hada Carabus, El (reference)

  • Photographic catalogue of the genus Carabus (reference)

  • World Catalogue of the Genus Carabus L (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: CARABUS

Computer Images:
CARABUS

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Digital Photo Gallery: CARABUS
 

"Beetle, Carabus auratus" by Jens Kressler
Commentary: "Beetle, Carabus auratus -on the ostsee beach-."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CARABUS

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

carabus

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "CARABUS"

Words rhyming with "CARABUS" (pronounced 'Car"a*bus'): Aerobus, Arcubus, bus, Choriambus, Circumbendibus, iambus, INCUBUS, Jacobus, Minibus, Omnibus, Phoebus, rhombus, Rubus, Strombus, succubus, thrombus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CARABUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-r-s-u"

-1 letter: abacus, acarus, scarab.

-2 letters: arcus, auras, buras, bursa, carbs, crabs, curbs, sabra, sacra, scaur, scrub, scuba.

-3 letters: abas, arbs, arcs, aura, baas, bars, bras, bura, burs, cabs, carb, cars, casa, crab, crus, cubs, curb, curs, rubs, scab, scar, suba, sura, urbs, ursa.

-4 letters: aas, aba, abs, arb, arc, ars, baa, bar, bas, bra, bur.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: labrusca.

 

+2 letters: carnaubas.

 

+3 letters: ambuscader, barracudas, scarabaeus, trabeculas, ultrabasic.

 

+4 letters: ambuscaders, barracoutas, blackguards, bureaucrats, lumbosacral, purchasable, subcapsular, ultrabasics.

 

+5 letters: bacteriurias, biquadratics, candelabrums, carbonaceous, constabulary, quarterbacks, racquetballs, scarabaeuses, subantarctic, subarachnoid, unsearchable, unsearchably, vocabularies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CARABUS


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

43 41 52 41 42 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 01010010 01000001 01000010 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

C A R A B U S

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0052 0041 0042 0055 0053

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

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

37355235365553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Digital Art
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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