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OCYPODIAN

Definition: OCYPODIAN

OCYPODIAN

Noun

1. One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ocypodian \O`cy*po"di*an\, noun. [from Greek expression 'wky`s swift poy`s, podo`s, foot.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: OCYPODIAN

English words defined with "OCYPODIAN": Racing crabSand crab. (references)

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Rhyming with "OCYPODIAN"

Words rhyming with "OCYPODIAN" (pronounced 'O`cy*po"di*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OCYPODIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-n-o-o-p-y"

-3 letters: anodic, canopy, conoid, cyanid.

-4 letters: acidy, candy, canid, capon, codon, condo, cyano, danio, nicad, pandy, panic, piano, podia, poind, pyoid, yapon, yonic.

-5 letters: acid, apod, ayin, cadi, caid, cain, capo, ciao, cion, coda, coin, coni, cony, coon, coop, copy, cyan, dona, dopa, dopy, icon, naoi, nipa, nodi, odic, padi, paid, pain, pian, pica.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-n-o-o-p-y"
 

+3 letters: hypochondria, photodynamic.

 

+4 letters: hypochondriac, hypochondrias.

 

+5 letters: endoscopically, hydroponically, hypochondriacs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OCYPODIAN


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

4F 43 59 50 4F 44 49 41 4E

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)

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