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GLOCHIDIUM

Definition: GLOCHIDIUM

GLOCHIDIUM

Noun

1. The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Glochidium \Glo*chid"i*um\, noun; plural Glochidia. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression the point of an arrow.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: GLOCHIDIUM

English words defined with "GLOCHIDIUM": Glochidia. (references)

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Rhyming with "GLOCHIDIUM"

Words rhyming with "GLOCHIDIUM" (pronounced 'Glo*chid"i*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GLOCHIDIUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-g-h-i-i-l-m-o-u"

-2 letters: chilidog.

-3 letters: domicil, glochid, milchig.

-4 letters: cilium, clough, holmic, moduli, mucoid, oidium.

-5 letters: child, chili, cloud, cough, could, dolci, domic, dough, duomi, ghoul, guild, gulch, hilum, humic, humid, idiom, ilium, imido, iodic, lichi, locum, logic, lough, lucid, ludic, milch, mogul, mouch, mould, mucid, mulch, oculi, odium, ohmic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GLOCHIDIUM


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

47 4C 4F 43 48 49 44 49 55 4D

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)

01000111 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001000 01001001 01000100 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G L O C H I D I U M

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 004F 0043 0048 0049 0044 0049 0055 004D

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

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

41464937424338435547

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