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Definition: CONSOUND |
CONSOUNDNoun1. A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey. |
Date "CONSOUND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
Etymology: Consound \Con"sound\ (-sound), noun. [Corrupted from French consoude, fr Latin consolida comfrey (so called because supposed to have healing power); con- solidus solid, consolidare to make solid. Compare to Comfrey, Consolidate.]. (Websters 1913) |
Expression using "CONSOUND": Saracens' consound. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CONSOUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | laege-kulsukker (comfrey), kulsukker (comfrey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | smeerwortel (comfrey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | consoude officinale (comfrey), consoude (comfrey), grande consoude (comfrey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Beinwell (comfrey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | consolida maggiore (comfrey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsoundcay consolda (comfrey). (various references) consuelda (comfrey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Symphytum officinale. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-n-n-o-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: codons, condos, nodous. | |
-3 letters: codon, condo, conns, conus, coons, nodus, noons, nouns, scudo, snood, sound, uncos. | |
-4 letters: cods, conn, cons, coon, coos, cuds, docs, dons, duns, duos, nods, noon, noun, nous, nuns, onus, ouds, scud, soon, sunn, udos, unco, undo. | |
-5 letters: cod, con, coo, cos, cud, doc, don, dos, dun, duo, nod, noo, nos. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-n-n-o-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: confounds. | |
+2 letters: coonhounds, countdowns. | |
+3 letters: conductions, confounders, nondiscount. | |
+4 letters: condominiums, noncompounds, noncustodial. | |
+5 letters: discontinuous, introductions, mispronounced, nonconductors, nondisclosure, noneducations, rockhoundings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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