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Definition: MYCETES |
MYCETESNoun1. A genus of South American monkeys, including the howlers. See Howler, 2, and Illust. |
Date "MYCETES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Crosswords: MYCETES |
| English words defined with "MYCETES": Ouarine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MYCETES": Mesomycetes ♦ Phycomycetes. (references) |
| "MYCETES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "MYCETES" is used about 9 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) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (plural) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MYCETES": Mycetes ursinus ♦ Mycetes villosus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MYCETES": actinomycetes, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, myxomycetes, phycomycetes, streptomycetes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "MYCETES" (pronounced 'My*ce"tes'): Aetites, Antes, Ascites, Atlantes, Barytes, Bootes, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cortes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Ecclesiastes, Gasteromycetes, Gerontes, Hymenomycetes, Microlestes, Myxomycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes, Pterocletes, Quirites, Rudistes, Saccharomycetes, Sarcoptes, Schizomycetes, Sorites, Troglodytes, Tympanites, Vadantes, Vagantes, Venantes. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-m-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cetes, cymes, meets, metes, sycee, teems, tyees. | |
-3 letters: cees, cete, cyme, cyst, emes, eyes, meet, mete, sect, seem, seme, stem, stey, stye, syce, teem, tees, tyee, tyes. | |
-4 letters: cee, eme, ems, eye, met, sec, see, set, sty, tee, tye, yes, yet. | |
-5 letters: em, es, et, me, my, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-m-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: ecosystem, hemocytes. | |
+3 letters: amebocytes, ascomycete, cysteamine, ecosystems, encystment, myelocytes. | |
+4 letters: amoebocytes, ascomycetes, cyclometers, cysteamines, encystments, gametocytes, melanocytes, myxomycetes, pycnometers, splenectomy. | |
+5 letters: chamaephytes, geochemistry, hysterectomy, phycomycetes, psychrometer, spectrometry, spermatocyte, stapedectomy, streptomyces, thymectomies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 59 43 45 54 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- -.--. -.-. . - . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01011001 01000011 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M Y C E T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0059 0043 0045 0054 0045 0053 |
| 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)47593739543953 |
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