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Marantaceae

Definition: Marantaceae

Marantaceae

Noun

1. Tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes.

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



Synonyms: Marantaceae

Synonyms: arrowroot family (n), family Marantaceae (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Marantaceae

English words defined with "Marantaceae": family Marantaceae. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Marantaceae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (maranta, maranta family).

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Usage Frequency: Marantaceae

"Marantaceae" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Marantaceae" is used about 4 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 (proper)75%3202,518
Noun (plural)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Expression: Marantaceae

Expression using "Marantaceae": family Marantaceae. Additional references.

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

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Anagrams: Marantaceae

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-e-e-m-n-r-t"

-2 letters: catamaran.

-3 letters: macerate, racemate.

-4 letters: acerate, amreeta, camerae, catenae, cateran, cementa, centare, cremate, crenate, emanate, enemata, manatee, maranta, menacer, ramenta, reenact.

-5 letters: aerate, amarna, amerce, amtrac, arcana, arcane, ataman, camera, canter, carate, careen, carman, carmen, carnet, catena, cement, center, centra, centre, cerate, cermet, cetane, create, ecarte, entera, mantra, maraca, marten, meaner, menace, neater, nectar, raceme, ramate, recane, recant, recent, remate, rename, reteam, tanrec, tarama, tarmac, tenace, tenrec, trance.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Marantaceae


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

4D 61 72 61 6E 74 61 63 65 61 65

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)

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

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#97 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0061 006E 0074 0061 0063 0065 0061 0065

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

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

4767846780866769716771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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