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Definition: MORINGA |
MORINGANoun1. A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben. |
Etymology: Moringa \Mo*rin"ga\, noun. [Malayam murunggi.]. (Websters 1913) |
"MORINGA" is a common misspelling or typo for: marina, marring, miring, mooring, moping, morning, moving, mowing. |
Crosswords: MORINGA |
| English words defined with "MORINGA": Ben nut ♦ Horse-radish tree ♦ Moringic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MORINGA": ANTINEPHRITITIC, ANTIRHEUMATIC ♦ OIL PLANTS, ONOSERIS ONOSEROIDES, ONOSERIS PURPUREA ♦ PICKLES ♦ ROOT EDIBLE-COOKED ♦ SCREWWORMS, SEEDS EDIBLE-COOKED, SNAKEBITE CURES ♦ TOOTHACHE PLANTS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MORINGA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (Terberinto), Portuguese (behen tree, behn tree, ben tree, horseradish tree, jug). |
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 | Plate 237. The Spotted Moray. Gymnothorax moringa (Cuv.), Goode & Bean. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Spotted moray eel slithers among the reef growth. Gymnothorax moringa. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expressions using "MORINGA": moringa aptera ♦ moringa pterygosperma. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moringa | 34 |
moringa oleifera | 21 |
moringa tree | 6 |
moringa trade | 5 |
moringa seed | 3 |
de moringa nó | 2 |
animal feed moringa | 2 |
moringa stenopetala | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "MORINGA" (pronounced 'Mo*rin"ga'): Abanga, Alga, Anhinga, Auriga, Badiaga, Beccabunga, Bega, Beluga, Biga, Caatinga, Cotinga, Durga, Fuga, massasauga, Munga, Omega, Onagga, Plaga, Quadriga, Quagga, ruga, saiga, Siaga, toga, Tringa, Yoga, Ziega. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roaming. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arming, margin, morgan, oaring, onagri, origan. | |
-2 letters: amigo, amino, amnio, among, argon, gamin, garni, giron, gonia, grain, groan, groin, imago, inarm, mango, manor, minor, moira, noria, orang, organ, roman. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, amin, amir, gain, girn, giro, gnar, gram, gran, grim, grin, inro, iron, magi, main, mair, mano, mina, moan, mora. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: agrimony, armoring, caroming, ignorami, majoring, organism, origanum. | |
+2 letters: agronomic, angiogram, armouring, bromating, cairngorm, carroming, clamoring, comparing, enamoring, ignoramus, marooning, marrowing, migration, morganite, mortaring, omnirange, organisms, origanums, ransoming, romancing, varooming. | |
+3 letters: agrimonies, agronomies, agronomist, amortising, amortizing, angiograms, angiosperm, ausforming, bombarding, cairngorms, cinemagoer, clamouring, coadmiring, comparting, embargoing, emigration, enamouring, ergotamine, forearming, formatting, glamouring, gormandise, gormandize, gramineous, hormogonia, migrainous, migrations, mineralogy, moderating, moralising, moralizing, mordanting, morganatic, morganites, mortgaging, nonmigrant, omniranges, organicism, organismal, organismic, parmigiano, programing, ramrodding, romanising, romanizing, rosemaling, sporangium, tambouring, workingman. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 52 49 4E 47 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. .. -. --. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O R I N G A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0052 0049 004E 0047 0041 |
| 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)47495243484135 |
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