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Definition: Hemerocallis |
HemerocallisNoun1. East Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Hemerocallis \Hem`e*ro*cal"lis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression day beauty.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: HemerocallisSynonym: genus Hemerocallis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hemerocallis |
| English words defined with "Hemerocallis": family Hemerocallidaceae ♦ genus Hemerocallis ♦ Hemerocallidaceae, Hemerocallis flava, Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus. (references) |
| "Hemerocallis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hemerocallis" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Hemerocallis": genus Hemerocallis ♦ Hemerocallis flava. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
hemerocallis | 92 |
fulva hemerocallis | 10 |
hemerocallis society | 5 |
hemerocallis plant | 3 |
daylily hemerocallis | 2 |
hemerocallis pardon | 2 |
hemerocallis skylark | 2 |
hemerocallis orange | 2 |
hemerocallis hybrida x | 2 |
hemerocallis hyperion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Hemerocallis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 諼 (false, forget, Hemerocallis flava), 萱 (Hemerocallis flava). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emerocallishay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Hemerocallis": hemerocallises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Hemerocallis" (pronounced 'Hem`e*ro*cal"lis'): Amaryllis, Anolis, Caulis, Challis, Digitalis, Eblis, Epulis, Felis, Hamamelis, Peplis, tallis, torticollis, trellis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-l-m-o-r-s" | |
-3 letters: alchemies, chiseller, millraces, rocailles, schlemiel. | |
-4 letters: airholes, armholes, calomels, calories, camisole, carioles, cashmere, casimere, ceorlish, challies, charlies, cheerios, chillers, chimeras, chimeres, chiseler, chlorals, choleras, chorales, chrismal, claimers, colliers, comelier, creolise, escarole, helleris, hemiolas, heroical, homelier, leachers, leachier, localise, localism, machrees, marchese, marchesi, measlier, micellae, micellar, micelles, millrace, miracles, mochilas, moralise, morelles, racemose, reclaims, reclames, rocaille, schiller, schliere, scleroma, shellier, shlemiel, shoalier, shoelace, smellier. | |
-5 letters: acerose, airhole, amerces, archils, areoles, armhole, cahiers, callers, callose, calomel, calorie, cariole, carlish, cashier, ceilers, cellars, celosia, cereals, challie, challis, chamise, chamiso, chamois, charism, charlie, cheerio, cheeros, chemise, chiller, chimars, chimera, chimere, chimers, chimlas, chloral, cholera, cholers, chollas, chorale, chorals, choreal, choreas, chorial, chrisma, chrisom, chromas, chromes, claimer, clamors, claries, claroes, clasher, cleomes, coalers, coalier, coheirs, coheres, coilers, collars, collier, collies, coremia, cormels, creoles, echoers, echoism, eclairs, escolar, hailers, halloes, hareems, healers, helical, helices, helleri, hellers, helloes, hemiola, heroics, heroism, hillers, hilloas, hilloes, hollers, hollies, larches, leacher, leaches, lechers, lichees, loaches, loamier, locales, lochial, loricae, machree, mailers, malices, mallees, marcels, marches, mealier, mealies, mercies, mesarch, meshier, micella, micelle, micells, millers, miracle, miscall, mishear, mochila, mohairs, moilers, mollahs, mollies, morales, morelle, ocellar, ochreae, oraches, oracles, oralism, orchils, racemes, rallies, reaches, realise, realism, recalls, rechose, reclaim, reclame, recoals, recoils, relaces, remails, rescale, roaches, roselle, sallier, scalier, schemer, schmear, schmeer, scholar, scholia, sclerae, scleral, scoriae, seamier, seriema, shalier, shellac, sheller, shoaler, smaller, smeller, solacer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-l-m-o-r-s" | |
+2 letters: hemerocallises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6D 65 72 6F 63 61 6C 6C 69 73 |
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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)01001000 01100101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101111 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e m e r o c a l l i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006D 0065 0072 006F 0063 0061 006C 006C 0069 0073 |
| 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)427179718481696778787585 |
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