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LIGULE

Definitions: LIGULE

LIGULE

Noun

1. A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.

2. A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositae.

3. The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ligule \Lig"ule\ (-[-u]l), noun. [Latin expression ligula, lingula, little tongue, diminutive of lingua tongue compare to the French expression ligule.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: LIGULE

English words defined with "LIGULE": Ligula. (references)

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Usage Frequency: LIGULE

"LIGULE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LIGULE" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LIGULE

Language Translations for "LIGULE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skedehinde (ligula). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tongetje (ligula), bladtongetje (ligula). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ligula (ligula), kieleke (projecting rock, projection). (various references)

   

French

  

ligule (ligula). (various references)

   

German

  

Ligula (ligula), Blatthäutchen (ligula). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γλωσσίς (ligula). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ligula (ligula). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igulelay

   

Portuguese

  

lígula (ligula). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lígula (ligula). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snärp (ligula). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: LIGULE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ligula. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: LIGULE

Derivations

Words beginning with "LIGULE": ligules. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LIGULE"

Words rhyming with "LIGULE" (pronounced 'Lig"ule'): Bacule, Batule, Cedule, Cerule, Germule, granule, Hemispherule, Limule, lobule, locule, Nodule, Palule, Papule, Perule, Pinule, Plantule, Setule, spherule, spicule, Spinule, Sporule, squamule, Stipule, Valvule, Venule, Vocule, Zonule. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LIGULE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-u"

-1 letter: guile.

-2 letters: gill, glue, gull, iglu, lieu, luge.

-3 letters: ell, gel, gie, gul, ill, leg, lei, leu, lie, lug.

-4 letters: el, li.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-u"
 

+1 letter: gullied, gullies, ligulae, ligules.

 

+2 letters: aiguille, bluegill, duelling, fuelling, gluelike, glutelin, guerilla, guileful, gulflike, gullible, ligulate, quelling.

 

+3 letters: aiguilles, bluegills, bulleting, collegium, cupelling, equalling, fullering, gallinule, glomeruli, glutelins, gruelling, guerillas, guerrilla, guileless, guillemet, guillemot, guilloche, guiltless, laureling, pupillage, unselling, upwelling.

 

+4 letters: bushelling, collegiums, cudgelling, delightful, euglobulin, exultingly, funnelling, gallinules, gruelingly, gruellings, guerrillas, guidwillie, guilefully, guillemets, guillemots, guilloches, guillotine, houselling, junglelike, laurelling, maquillage, neuroglial, outselling, outtelling, outyelling, pluguglies, pummelling, pupillages, refuelling, seguidilla, tunnelling, unleveling, unshelling, upswelling, upwellings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LIGULE


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

4C 49 47 55 4C 45

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)

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