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COLEOPTEROUS

Definition: COLEOPTEROUS

COLEOPTEROUS

Adjective

1. Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COLEOPTEROUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)


Crosswords: COLEOPTEROUS

English words defined with "COLEOPTEROUS": ColeopteralDermestesLamellicorn, LampyrisTrehala. (references)

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Modern Translation: COLEOPTEROUS

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

Arabic 

  

‏مغمد الجناح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

твърдокрил. (various references)

   

French

  

coléoptère (coleopter). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κολεόπτεροσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fedelesszárnyú bogár, fedelesszárnyú (elaterid). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oleopterouscay

   

Portuguese

  

coleóptero (beetle, coleopter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жесткокрылый. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

con alas rigurosas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

koleopterus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COLEOPTEROUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-o-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: opercules, prosecute, protocols, recouples, supercool.

-4 letters: closeout, clotures, clouters, corselet, coulters, couplers, couplets, creosote, cruelest, cupelers, eelpouts, electors, electros, lectures, octuples, opercule, otoscope, outcrops, outscoop, outscore, outsleep, poulters, precools, prelects, proteose, protocol, recouple, resculpt, resolute, sculptor, selector.

-5 letters: closeup, closure, cloture, clouter, cluster, colours, colters, colures, coolers, coolest, coopers, cooters, coplots, copouts, copters.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-o-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"
 

+5 letters: contemporaneously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COLEOPTEROUS


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

43 4F 4C 45 4F 50 54 45 52 4F 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 01001111 01001100 01000101 01001111 01010000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#76 &#69 &#79 &#80 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004C 0045 004F 0050 0054 0045 0052 004F 0055 0053

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

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

374946394950543952495553

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INDEX

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


  

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