Crescentia

Definition: Crescentia

Crescentia

Noun

1. A genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches.

"Crescentia" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "grow".

Date "Crescentia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

"Crescentia" is a common misspelling or typo for: Crescendo, Crescent.

Synonym: Crescentia

Synonym: genus Crescentia (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Crescentia

English words defined with "Crescentia": Gourd tree. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Crescentia": ANTIDIARRHETIC ♦ PICKLES ♦ SEEDS EDIBLE-COOKED. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Crescentia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (Yato, Yatuseque).

"Crescentia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crescentia" is used about 2 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 (proper)	100%	2	245,945

"Crescentia" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "grow".

The following table summarizes names related to "Crescentia."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Crescentia	Female	Ancient Roman	Crescentius
Crescentius	Male	Ancient Roman	N/A
Crescentia	Female	German	Crescentius
Kreszentia	Female	German	Crescentius
Kreszenz	Female	German	Crescentius
Czenzi	Female	Hungarian	Crescentia
Crescenzo	Male	Italian	Crescentius
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "Crescentia": Crescentia cujete ♦ genus Crescentia. 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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: centiares, cisternae, creatines, iterances, nectaries, reaccents.
	-2 letters: accretes, acentric, acescent, arenites, arsenite, canister, centares, centiare, ceratins, cineaste, cisterna, creatine, creatins, crescent, enticers, increase, increate, iterance, reaccent, reascent, reenacts, resinate, sarcenet, scantier, secretin, stearine, tacrines, trainees.
	-3 letters: accents, accrete, acetins, aeriest, anestri, antsier, arcsine, arctics, arenite, arsenic, ascetic, cancers, canters, careens, carices, carnets, carnies.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: antisecrecy.
	+2 letters: chanticleers, consecrative, electricians, incarcerates, metacentrics, reluctancies, revaccinates, trenchancies.
	+3 letters: accelerations, precipitances, technocracies, tetracyclines.
	+4 letters: bronchiectases, contraceptives, criticalnesses, cyberneticians, deconsecrating, deconsecration, gerontocracies, precipitancies, recalcitrances, reconsecrating, reconsecration, scratchinesses, submetacentric, translucencies.
	+5 letters: concelebrations, conceptualizers, confectionaries, counterinstance, deconsecrations, eclaircissement, econometricians, electrodynamics, practicableness, practicalnesses, recalcitrancies, reconsecrations, submetacentrics, transcendencies.
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