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GRYPHAEA

Definition: GRYPHAEA

GRYPHAEA

Noun

1. A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Gryphaea \Gry*ph[ae]"a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from gryphus, or qryps, gen. gryphis, griffin.]. (Websters 1913)

"GRYPHAEA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Grapheme, Graphite, Greenhead.


Expression: GRYPHAEA

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "GRYPHAEA": Ostrea-gryphaea.

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

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Specialty Definition: Gryphaea

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Gryphaea, also known as Devil's toenails are a type of extinct oyster. They are bivalves fossils from the Jurassic period.

They lived on the sea bed in shallow waters, possibly in large colonies like oysters.

They are common in many parts of Great Britain.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gryphaea."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GRYPHAEA

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

gryphaea

3
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Anagrams: GRYPHAEA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-p-r-y"

-2 letters: grapey, raphae.

-3 letters: aargh, agape, apery, gaper, gayer, gerah, grape, graph, grapy, harpy, hayer, hyper, pager, parae, parge, payer, phage, raphe, rayah, repay, yager.

-4 letters: aery, agar, ager, agha, aper, area, ayah, epha, eyra, gape, gapy, gear, gray, grey, gyre, haar, hare, harp, heap, hear, hype, page, para, pare, peag, pear, pray, prey.

-5 letters: aah.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-p-r-y"
 

+2 letters: pharyngeal.

 

+3 letters: hyperphagia, paleography.

 

+4 letters: hyperphagias, oceanography.

 

+5 letters: arteriography, bacteriophagy, graphemically, metallography, nasopharynges, oropharyngeal.

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Alternative Orthography: GRYPHAEA


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

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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)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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

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INDEX

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2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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