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Lycoperdon

Definition: Lycoperdon

Lycoperdon

Noun

1. Genus of fungi whose fruiting body tapers toward a base consisting of spongy mycelium.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Lycoperdon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

Etymology: Lycoperdon \Ly`co*per"don\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression wolf to break wind.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Lycoperdon

Synonym: genus Lycoperdon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lycoperdon

English words defined with "Lycoperdon": genus Lycoperdon. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Lycoperdon

Illustrations:
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Expressions: Lycoperdon

Expressions using "Lycoperdon": genus Lycoperdon Lycoperdon giganteum. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lycoperdon

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

lycoperdon

5

giganteum lycoperdon

2
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Modern Translations: Lycoperdon

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

Chinese 

  

马勃属. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ycoperdonlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Lycoperdon"

Words rhyming with "Lycoperdon" (pronounced 'Ly`co*per"don'): Abaddon, Acotyledon, Bandon, boustrophedon, Burdon, Cordon, Corindon, Cotyledon, Croydon, Fondon, Gardon, London, monocotyledon, Polycotyledon, Reguerdon, Sindon, Siredon, Skaddon, tendon. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lycoperdon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-n-o-o-p-r-y"

-2 letters: condoler.

-3 letters: colored, condole, condyle, coopery, coronel, crooned, decolor, lycopod, precool, pronely.

-4 letters: cloned, cloner, cloyed, colder, colone, colony, condor, cooled, cooler, cooped, cooper, cordon, corned, cornel, corody, crepon, deploy, droopy, locoed, looney, looped, looper, noodle, openly, operon, ployed, polder, poleyn, ponced, ponder, poodle, pooled, poorly, pyrone, recopy, rondel, yodler, yonder.

-5 letters: ceorl, clone.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-n-o-o-p-r-y"
 

+2 letters: pronouncedly.

 

+5 letters: correspondingly, epichlorohydrin.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lycoperdon


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

4C 79 63 6F 70 65 72 64 6F 6E

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)

.-..    -.--.    -.-.    ---    .--.    .    .-.    -..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01111001 01100011 01101111 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100100 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#121 &#99 &#111 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#100 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0079 0063 006F 0070 0065 0072 0064 006F 006E

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

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

46916981827184708180

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Lycoperdon"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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