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Definition: DOG-ROSE |
DOG-ROSENoun1. A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers. |
Date "DOG-ROSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dog-rose Botanical name, Cynorrhodos - i.e. Greek Kuno-rodon, dog-rose; so called because it was supposed to cure the bite of a mad dog (Rosa Canina, wild brier). "A morsu vero [i.e. of a mad dog] unicum remedium oraculo quodam nuper repertum, radix Sylvestris rosæ. quæ cynorrhodos appellatur." - Pliny: Natural History, viii. 63; xxv. 6. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DOG-ROSE |
| English words defined with "DOG-ROSE": Canker bloom ♦ Dog-brier ♦ Heep, Hep tree, Hip tree. (references) |
| "DOG-ROSE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOG-ROSE" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DOG-ROSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rosa canina (briar), hondsroos (briar, dog rose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | villiruusu (wild rose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | églantier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wilder Rosenstock (briar), Hundsrose (briar, dog rose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυνορροδέα (briar), αγριοτριανταφυλλιά (briar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | roseto di macchia (briar), rosaio (rose garden, rose tree, rosebush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | og-roseday roseira brava (briar). (various references) escaramujo (hip, rose hip, spell, wild rose). (various references) nyponbuske (brier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rosa canina. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: goosed, rodeos, roosed. | |
-2 letters: doers, doges, doors, doser, dregs, goers, goods, goose, gored, gores, gorse, odors, ogres, ordos, redos, resod, rodeo, roods, roose, rosed, sorgo. | |
-3 letters: doer, does, doge, dogs, door, dore, dors, dose, dreg, egos, ergo, ergs, eros, geds, gods, goer, goes, good, goos, gore, odes, odor, ogre, ordo, ores, redo, reds. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: overdogs. | |
+2 letters: goosander, overgoads, prognosed, supergood. | |
+3 letters: godmothers, goldenrods, gondoliers, goosanders, greasewood, greenwoods, hotdoggers, outgrossed, overdosage, overdosing, wrongdoers. | |
+4 letters: bridegrooms, derogations, didgeridoos, footbridges, forebodings, foregrounds, godforsaken, greasewoods, hydrogenous, hydrologies, iridologies, orangewoods, overdosages, radiologies, roughhoused, scattergood, sockdolager, sockdologer, troglodytes, wordmongers. | |
+5 letters: boondogglers, cardiologies, dendrologies, dendrologist, footdraggers, gadzookeries, hornswoggled, proglottides, scattergoods, sockdolagers, sockdologers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 47 2D 52 4F 53 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001111 01000111 00101101 01010010 01001111 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O G - R O S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0047 002D 0052 004F 0053 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3849411552495339 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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