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Enterobius

Definition: Enterobius

Enterobius

Noun

1. Pinworms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Enterobius

DomainDefinitions

Health

A genus of intestinal nematode worms which includes the pinworm or threadworm Enterobius vermicularis. (references)

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

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Synonym: Enterobius

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

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Crosswords: Enterobius

English words defined with "Enterobius": enterobiasis, Enterobius vermicularisgenus Enterobius. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Enterobius": Oxyuroidea. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Enterobius

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Health

The nematode (roundworm) Enterobius vermicularis (previously Oxyuris vermicularis) also called human pinworm. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Enterobius

Expressions using "Enterobius": Enterobius vermicularis genus Enterobius. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enterobius

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

enterobius vermicularis

41

enterobius

10

enterobius vermiculares

6

cycle enterobius life vermicularis

2

enterobius lung lymph node vermicularis

2
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Anagrams: Enterobius

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tenebrious.

Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: tenebrous.

-2 letters: betonies, bornites, bounties, burstone, ebonites, esurient, oneriest, retinues, reunites, routines, serotine, snoutier, tribunes, tubenose, tuberose, turbines.

-3 letters: boneset, boniest, boreens, bornite, bournes, brunets, bunters, burnets, burnies, burtons, bustier, butenes, ebonies, ebonise, ebonite, enrobes, entires, entries, estrone, inburst, neuters, nitrous, norites, nutsier, obtuser, oestrin, orbiest, orients, ourebis, outseen, retines, retinue, retunes, reunite.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: boutonnieres, outbreedings.

 

+3 letters: obtrusiveness, subgeneration.

 

+4 letters: boisterousness, rediscountable, subgenerations.

 

+5 letters: mountebankeries, obstructiveness, obtrusivenesses, reconstructible, ribonucleotides, sesquicarbonate, subordinateness, unobtrusiveness.

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Alternative Orthography: Enterobius


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

45 6E 74 65 72 6F 62 69 75 73

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101001 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#111 &#98 &#105 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 006F 0062 0069 0075 0073

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

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

39808671848168758785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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