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Definition: LETTERWOOD |
LETTERWOODNoun1. The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. |
Crosswords: LETTERWOOD |
| English words defined with "LETTERWOOD": Leopardwood. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "LETTERWOOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | bogstavtrae (leopardwood, snakewood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | letterhout (leopardwood, snakewood), kapiteinhout (leopardwood, snakewood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | lettre mouchete (leopardwood), bois de lettre (leopardwood), amourette (leopardwood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Letternholz (leopardwood, snakewood), Leopardholz (leopardwood, snakewood), Snakewood (leopardwood, snakewood), Paolo de oro (leopardwood, snakewood), Muskatholz (leopardwood, snakewood), Buchstabenholz (leopardwood, snakewood), Amourette (leopardwood, snakewood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | legno serpente (leopardwood, snakewood), legno lettre (leopardwood, snakewood), amourette (leopardwood, snakewood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etterwoodlay pau-tartaruga (leopardwood, snakewood), muirapinima (leopardwood, snakewood). (various references) leopardträd (leopardwood, snakewood), tigerträd (leopardwood, snakewood), bokstavsträd (leopardwood, snakewood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Brosimum guianensis, Piratinera guianensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-o-o-r-t-t-w" | |
-2 letters: dotterel, retooled, troweled. | |
-3 letters: dottrel, lowered, rootlet, roweled, tetrode, tootled, tootler, toweled, towered. | |
-4 letters: dewool, doolee, dottel, dotter, dottle, letted, letter, lewder, looted, looter, lotted, retold, retool, retted, reweld, rooted, rotted, teredo, toledo, tooled, tooler, tooted, tooter, tootle, trowed, trowel, welder, weldor, welted, welter, wetted, wetter, wooled, wooler, wotted. | |
-5 letters: deter, dolor, doter, dowel. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 54 54 45 52 57 4F 4F 44 |
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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)01001100 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010111 01001111 01001111 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E T T E R W O O D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052 0057 004F 004F 0044 |
| 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)46395454395257494938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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