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Definition: Celandine |
CelandineNoun1. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil. 2. Perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Celandine" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "swallow". |
Date "celandine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Celandine a shepherdess in love with Marina. Finding his suit too easily granted, he waxed cold, and discarded the "matchless beauty." (W. Browne: Britannia's Pastorals; 1613.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: CelandineSynonyms: greater celandine (n), jewelweed (n), lady's earrings (n), orange balsam (n), swallow wort (n), swallowwort (n), touch-me-not (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Celandine |
| English words defined with "celandine": Chelerythrine, Chelidonic, Chelidonic acid, Chelidonium ♦ genus Chelidonium ♦ Papaveraceous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "celandine": Chelidonic. (references) |
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| "Celandine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Celandine" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "celandine": celandine poppy ♦ greater celandine ♦ Lasser celandine ♦ lesser celandine ♦ tree celandine. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
celandine | 14 |
celandine poppy | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "celandine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | لاحقة معناها ورم, بقلة الخطاطيف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жълтениче. (various references) | |
Chinese | 白屈菜 (greater celandine). (various references) | |
Czech | vlaštovièník. (various references) | |
Dutch | stinkende gouwe, schelkruid. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kelidonio (greater celandine). (various references) | |
French | chélidoine. (various references) | |
Greek | χελιδόνιο, φικαρία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérfû. (various references) | |
Manx | lus ny mlainyn (celandine lesser), lus ny gollan geayee (celandine greater). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elandinecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | celidônia. (various references) | |
Romanian | rostopascã. (various references) | |
Russian | чистотел. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rusa, žuta trava. (various references) | |
Spanish | celidonia. (various references) | |
Swedish | svalört (lesser celandine), skelört (greater celandine). (various references) | |
Turkish | kırlangıçotu (greater celandine), basurotu (lesser celandine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чистотіл. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "celandine": celandines. (additional references) | |
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"Celandine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Callandine, Carandente, Celentano, Clonidine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "celandine" (pronounced se"lundī'n) |
| 3 | -d ī' n | Aerodyne, heterodyne, iodine, superheterodyne. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: decennial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: decennia, enneadic. | |
-2 letters: adenine, aliened, annelid, cleaned, decline, delaine, encinal, enlaced, inlaced, lindane. | |
-3 letters: aedile, aedine, alined, aneled, candle, canine, canned, cannel, cannie, ceiled, decane, decile, denial, edenic, encina, enlace, ennead, indene, inlace, inland, lanced, leaden, leaned, linden, nailed. | |
-4 letters: acned, ailed, alcid, alien, aline, anele, anile, caned, canid, clade, clean, cline, dance, decal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: celandines, decennials. | |
+2 letters: calendering, channelized, clandestine, decennially. | |
+3 letters: declensional, diencephalon, indeclinable, mischanneled. | |
+4 letters: clandestinely, credentialing, diencephalons, identicalness, mischannelled. | |
+5 letters: accidentalness, credentialling, decentralizing, denuclearizing, grandiloquence, incandescently, inconsiderable, indelicateness, nonclandestine, uncredentialed. | |
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