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Fer-de-lance

Definition: Fer-de-lance

Fer-de-lance

Noun

1. Large extremely venomous pit viper of Central and South America.

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Etymology: Fer-de-lance \Fer`-de-lance"\, noun. [French expression, the iron of lance, lance head.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: Fer-de-lance

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A deadly snake. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: Fer-de-lance

Synonym: Bothrops atrops (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: barba amarilla (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), yellow-jawed tommygoff.

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Crosswords: Fer-de-lance

English words defined with "fer-de-lance": Bothropsgenus BothropsLance snakeRat-tailed serpentYellow viper. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fer-de-lance": BatroxobinCrotalid Venoms. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fer-de-lance

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Fer-de-Lance (1974)

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Commercial Usage: Fer-de-lance

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Books

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Modern Translations: Fer-de-lance

Language Translations for "fer-de-lance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

fer de lance. (various references)

   

German

  

rauhschuppiger Lanzenotter (barba amarilla, yellow-jawed tommygoff). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ferro di lancia (barba amarilla, yellow-jawed tommygoff). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

er-de-lancefay

   

Thai

  

งูพิษยักษ์จำพวก Bothrops atrox พบในเขตร้อนทวีปอเมริกา. (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fer-de-lance

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Bothrops asper. (various references)

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Anagrams: Fer-de-lance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: freelanced.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-f-l-n-r"

-1 letter: freelance, recleaned.

-2 letters: calender, careened, creneled, refenced.

-3 letters: candler, cleaned, cleaner, cleared, creedal, creeled, declare, defacer, defence, endleaf, enfaced, enlaced, federal, fleeced, fleecer, fleered, learned, needler, recaned, reclean, refaced, refence, relaced.

-4 letters: aneled, candle, careen, cedarn, cereal, cradle, craned, credal, crenel, dancer, darnel, deafen, deafer, dealer, decane, decare, decern, decree, deface, deflea, earned, endear.

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Alternative Orthography: Fer-de-lance


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

46 65 72 2D 64 65 2D 6C 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01000110 01100101 01110010 00101101 01100100 01100101 00101101 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#114 &#45 &#100 &#101 &#45 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0072 002D 0064 0065 002D 006C 0061 006E 0063 0065

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

407184157071157867806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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