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Definition: INVOLUCRUM |
INVOLUCRUMNoun1. A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora. 2. See Involucre. |
Date "INVOLUCRUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INVOLUCRUM |
| English words defined with "INVOLUCRUM": Involucra, Involucral, Involucrums. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "INVOLUCRUM" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (involucre). |
| Language | Translations for "INVOLUCRUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | gaine. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Involucrum (involucre, sheathing), Einscheidung (sheathing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | involucro (casing, envelope, involucre, jacket, sheath, shell, wrapper, wrapping), rivestimento (casing, coating, cover, covering, encasement, facing, integument, jacket, lag, lining, skin), guaina (case, girdle, scabbard, sheath). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | involucrumay mà ng (film, involucre, membrane), áo (involucre, tunica). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-m-n-o-r-u-u-v" | |
-2 letters: inoculum, vinculum. | |
-4 letters: column, conium, corium, crinum, cumuli, curium, micron, moulin, muonic, uncoil, uncurl. | |
-5 letters: clour, colin, cornu, covin, cumin, curio, incur, linum, locum, micro, minor, mourn, mucin, mucor, mucro, nicol, oculi, onium, orcin, runic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-m-n-o-r-u-u-v" | |
+4 letters: circumvolution. | |
+5 letters: circumvolutions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 56 4F 4C 55 43 52 55 4D |
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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)01001001 01001110 01010110 01001111 01001100 01010101 01000011 01010010 01010101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N V O L U C R U M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0056 004F 004C 0055 0043 0052 0055 004D |
| 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)43485649465537525547 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, tedesco, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italien, italienisch, italiano |
Vietnamese | có tÃnh chất sách vở, sá»± định rõ, sá»± định nghÄ©a, lá»i định nghÄ©a sá»± định, sá»± dịch, sá»± biến thà nh sá»± giải thÃch | vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, ngÆ°á»i Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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