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EPEIRA

Definition: EPEIRA

EPEIRA

Noun

1. A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EPEIRA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Epeira \E*pei"ra\, noun. [New Latin]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: EPEIRA

English words defined with "EPEIRA": Geometric spiderOrbitelae. (references)

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Modern Usage: EPEIRA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Epeira Diadema (1952)

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

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Expression: EPEIRA

Expression using "EPEIRA": Epeira diadema. Additional references.

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

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Rhyming with "EPEIRA"

Words rhyming with "EPEIRA" (pronounced 'E*pei"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dulcamara, Dura, Durra, Endopleura, ERA, Eudipleura, Euthyneura, Exogyra, Eyra, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, Guara, Haminura, hegira, Ichthyophthira. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EPEIRA

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pereia.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-p-r"

-1 letter: aerie, perea.

-2 letters: aper, pair, pare, pear, peer, peri, pier, pree, rape, reap, ripe.

-3 letters: air, ape, are, ear, era, ere, ire, par, pea, pee, per, pia, pie, rap, ree, rei, rep, ria, rip.

-4 letters: ae, ai, ar, er, pa, pe, pi, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-p-r"
 

+1 letter: aperies, peakier, peatier, perinea.

 

+2 letters: airspeed, aperient, bediaper, diapered, earpiece, espalier, japeries, naperies, parietes, peachier, pearlier, pearlite, pedalier, perigeal, perigean, perineal, pharisee, praecipe, rapiered, rareripe, repaired, repairer.

 

+3 letters: airspeeds, aperients, apheresis, appetiser, appetizer, appraisee, bediapers, calipered, crepitate, despaired, despairer, draperies, earpieces, eparchies, epicurean, epidermal, epimerase, epineuria, espaliers, evaporite, explainer, extirpate, fireplace, grapelike, graperies, grapevine, hairpiece, hyperemia, impearled, impetrate, imprecate, leporidae, operative, papeterie, passerine, patienter, pauperize, pearliest, pearlites, pearlized, peccaries, pedaliers, pedlaries, peperomia, percaline, perennial, pericopae, perihelia, periostea, peritonea, pertained, pervasive, pessaries, pharisees, pilferage, pistareen, praecipes, preachier, predicate, prelacies, prevailed, previable, privateer, puerperia, rareripes, reapplied, reapplies, rebaptize, repainted, repairers, repairmen, repealing, repeating, replicase, replicate, reprieval, repudiate, shapelier, sparteine, specialer, therapies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EPEIRA


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

45 50 45 49 52 41

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)

01000101 01010000 01000101 01001001 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#80 &#69 &#73 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0050 0045 0049 0052 0041

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

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

395039435235

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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