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Definition: CASTOREUM |
CASTOREUMNoun1. A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers. |
Date "CASTOREUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Castoreum \Cas*to"re*um\, noun. [Latin expression See Castor.]. (Websters 1913) |
"CASTOREUM" is a common misspelling or typo for: castor, cestrum. |
Crosswords: CASTOREUM |
| English words defined with "CASTOREUM": Castorin. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
castoreum | 6 |
castoreum russia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CASTOREUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kasztoreum (castor), hódzsír (castor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astoreumcay castóreo. (various references) castoreo. (various references) боброва струмина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CASTOREUM": castoreums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CASTOREUM" (pronounced 'Cas*to"re*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: costumer, customer, outraces, racemous. | |
-2 letters: acerous, acetous, carouse, coaster, coaters, comates, costume, coteaus, couters, curates, maestro, matures, morceau, mucosae, oestrum, outrace, rectums, scouter, scrotum, strumae, surcoat, turacos. | |
-3 letters: acetum, actors, acuter, acutes, amours, amuser, armets, arouse, cameos, carets, caroms, cartes, caster, castor, caters, causer, cerous, cesura, coarse, coater, comate, comers, comets, comtes, corset. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: castoreums, outmarches. | |
+2 letters: cafetoriums, champertous, emasculator, scoutmaster. | |
+3 letters: anticonsumer, commensurate, countermands, crematoriums, emasculators, euchromatins, macropterous, mercurations, proctodaeums, scoutmasters. | |
+4 letters: accouterments, accoutrements, anticonsumers, autoeroticism, coastguardmen, counterclaims, counterimages, counterstream, customariness, documentaries, documentarist, gastrocnemius, manufactories, nomenclatures, paramountcies, superromantic, unimportances. | |
+5 letters: autoeroticisms, coastguardsmen, commensurately, commensuration, counterdemands, countermarches, countermeasure, counterstreams, discouragement, documentarians, documentarists, encouragements, incommensurate, macronutrients, macrostructure, pachydermatous, parenchymatous, pneumothoraces, recomputations, subatmospheric, vermiculations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 53 54 4F 52 45 55 4D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ... - --- .-. . ..- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01000101 01010101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A S T O R E U M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0053 0054 004F 0052 0045 0055 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)373553544952395547 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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