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Nut Grass

Definition: Nut Grass

Nut Grass

Noun

1. A widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.

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


Synonyms: Nut Grass

Synonyms: nut sedge (n), nutgrass (n), nutsedge (n). (additional references)

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Image Slideshow: Nut Grass

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nut Grass

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

  nut grass

77
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nut Grass

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

Danish

  

rund cyperrod (coco grass). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

teki (coco grass). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maakastanja (chufa, earthalmond, rushnut US, yellow nut grass, yellow nutsedge). (various references)

   

French

  

souchet rond. (various references)

   

German

  

Nussgras (coco grass). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κύπερη (coco grass), κύπειρος η στρογγυλόρριζος (coco grass), κάπουρας (coco grass). (various references)

   

Italian

  

paludina (coco grass). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utnay assgray

   

Portuguese

  

junquinha mansa (chufa, earthalmond, rushnut US, yellow nut grass, yellow nutsedge), juncinha (chufa, earthalmond, rushnut US, yellow nut grass, yellow nutsedge). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tamscan (coco grass), juncia redonda (coco grass), cipera (coco grass). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nötgräs (coco grass), cocogräs (coco grass). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nut Grass

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cyperus rotundus, Cyperus tuberosus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Nut Grass

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nutgrass.

Words within the letters "a-g-n-r-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: santurs.

-2 letters: angsts, grants, grunts, santur, stangs, strang, strung, sugars, sutras, tarsus, tragus, tussar.

-3 letters: angst, argus, aunts, gasts, gaunt, gaurs, gauss, gnars, gnats, grans, grant, grass, grunt, guans, guars, gusts, rants, rungs, runts, rusts, snags, snugs, stags, stang, stars, stung, stuns, sugar, suras, sutra, tangs, tarns, trans, trass, trugs, truss, tsars, tunas.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-n-r-s-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: assurgent.

 

+2 letters: nutgrasses, signatures.

 

+3 letters: gangbusters, scatterguns, stranguries, superagents, supergiants, transfusing.

 

+4 letters: gratefulness, pasteurising, strangulates, subrogations, transfigures, vanguardists.

 

+5 letters: gastrocnemius, gastrulations, manslaughters, resuscitating, sequestrating, singularities, somersaulting, urbanologists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nut Grass


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

4E 75 74      47 72 61 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01001110 01110101 01110100 00100000 01000111 01110010 01100001 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#117 &#116 &#32 &#71 &#114 &#97 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0075 0074      0047 0072 0061 0073 0073

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

48878624184678585

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INDEX

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


  

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