Medawar

Definition: Medawar

Medawar

Noun

1. British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987).

Date "Medawar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonyms: Medawar

Synonyms: Peter Medawar (n), Sir Peter Brian Medawar (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Medawar

English words defined with "Medawar": Peter Medawar ♦ Sir Peter Brian Medawar. (references)

"Medawar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Medawar" is used about 11 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	11	106,044

The following table summarizes the usage of "Medawar" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Medawar	Last name	100	70,138
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "Medawar": Peter Medawar ♦ Sir Peter Brian Medawar. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-m-r-w"
	-1 letter: warmed.
	-2 letters: armed, award, aware, damar, derma, dewar, drama, dream, madre, mawed, wader, wared.
	-3 letters: area, awed, dame, dare, dear, derm, dram, draw, drew, maar, made, mare, mead, read, ream, wade, wame, ward, ware, warm, wear.
	-4 letters: ama, are, arm, awa, awe, dam, daw, dew, ear, era, mad, mae, mar, maw, med, mew, rad.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-m-r-w"
	+3 letters: alderwoman, meadowlark, misawarded.
	+4 letters: meadowlarks, warmhearted, watermarked.
	+5 letters: multiwarhead.
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