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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The large pigment cells of fish, amphibia, reptiles and many invertebrates which actively disperse and aggregate their pigment granules. These cells include melanophores, erythrophores, xanthophores, leucophores and iridiophores. In algae, chromatophores refer to chloroplasts. In phototrophic bacteria chromatophores refer to membranous organelles (bacterial chromatophores). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CHROMATOPHORES |
| English words defined with "CHROMATOPHORES": Pyrenoid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CHROMATOPHORES": Algae, Brown. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CHROMATOPHORES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "CHROMATOPHORES" 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 (plural) | 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.
Expression using "CHROMATOPHORES": Bacterial Chromatophores. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
chromatophores | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-m-o-o-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: chromatophore. | |
-2 letters: chromophores, trochophores. | |
-3 letters: arthroscope, chromophore, cooperators, copromoters, crapshooter, prothoraces, trochophore. | |
-4 letters: cooperator, copromoter, ectomorphs, homeopaths. | |
-5 letters: chromates, coatrooms, comparers, corporate, crapshoot, cremators, ectomorph, heptarchs, homeopath, homeports, horoscope, metaphors, motorcars, operators, orchestra, promoters, prosector, shampooer, sharecrop, sophomore, stomacher, storeroom. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-h-m-o-o-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+4 letters: macrophotographies, microphotographers, microphotographies, photomicrographies. | |
+5 letters: chromolithographers, chromolithographies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 48 52 4F 4D 41 54 4F 50 48 4F 52 45 53 |
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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 01001000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010000 01001000 01001111 01010010 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H R O M A T O P H O R E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0052 004F 004D 0041 0054 004F 0050 0048 004F 0052 0045 0053 |
| 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)3742524947355449504249523953 |
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