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Definitions: FERULA |
FERULANoun1. The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire. 2. A ferule. |
Date "FERULA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
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Health | A genus of umbelliferous plants, including Ferula asafoetida, that yields pungent oils and resins used formerly as carminatives and now as cat and dog repellents. A related plant, F. galbanum, is used similarly. F. foetida is used as a fresh vegetable. (references) |
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Crosswords: FERULA |
| English words defined with "FERULA": Asafoetida ♦ Ferulic ♦ Giant fennel ♦ Sagapenum, Sumbul. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FERULA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (ferule), Latin (fennel plant or rod, ferule, the herb fennel /a rad to beat children with), Serbo-Croatian (ferrule). |
Expressions using "FERULA": Ferula asafoetida ♦ Ferula communis ♦ Ferula Sumbul. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
facial ferula | 3 |
brown de ferula | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "FERULA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | скиптър (scepter, sceptre, warder), вид сенникоцветно растение. (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | כלך. (various references) | ||||
Manx | builteen (baton, staff). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | erulafay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FERULA": ferulae, ferulas. (additional references) | |
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"FERULA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bercula, Fairuza, Farla, ferale, Feriha, ferile, ferkle, fidula, Fiorela, Fiorella, firtula, freculf, frenular, frenulum, Gerulot, merula, Nearula, Serpula, Serula. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: earful. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: farle, feral, feuar, flare, ureal. | |
-2 letters: alef, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, flue, frae, fuel, furl, leaf, lear, lure, rale, real, rule, urea. | |
-3 letters: ale, are, arf, ear, eau, elf, era, far, fer, feu, flu, fur, lar, lea, leu, ref, rue. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ar, ef, el, er, fa, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: careful, dareful, earfuls, failure, fearful, ferulae, ferulas, flaneur, flareup, frenula, funeral, refusal, refutal, tearful. | |
+2 letters: aflutter, awfuller, dreadful, dreamful, failures, faultier, filature, flaneurs, flareups, flaunter, flexural, formulae, fraulein, fumarole, funerals, funereal, furculae, furlable, graceful, grateful, refusals, refutals, surfable, weariful. | |
+3 letters: barrelful, carefully, defaulter, drawerful, dreadfuls, fearfully, filatures, flaunters, flauntier, flavoured, formulate, frauleins, fulgurate, fumaroles, gardenful, lifeguard, masterful, prayerful, prefeudal, qualifier, refutable, refutably, regardful, requalify, tearfully, ultrafine, ultraleft, ultrasafe. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 52 55 4C 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. ..- .-.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010010 01010101 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E R U L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0052 0055 004C 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403952554635 |
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