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OSTRACEAN

Definition: OSTRACEAN

OSTRACEAN

Noun

1. Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ostracean \Os*tra"cean\, noun. [Latin expression ostrea an oyster. See Oyster.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: OSTRACEAN

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

Ukranian 

  

устриця (oyster), молюск (mollusc, shellfish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OSTRACEAN"

Words rhyming with "OSTRACEAN" (pronounced 'Os*tra"cean'): Cetacean, Crustacean, Gallinacean, Phocacean, Predacean, Solenacean, testacean. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OSTRACEAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: ancestor, caterans, enactors.

-2 letters: aerosat, atoners, canters, cantors, carates, carnets, cartons, catenas, cateran, coarsen, coaster, coaters, contras, corneas, cornets, cratons, enactor, narcose, nectars, octanes, ostraca, recants, sacaton, scanter, senator, tanrecs, trances, treason.

-3 letters: acorns, actors, anears, ansate, antres, aortae, aortas, arcane, arecas, arenas, arseno, ascent, astern, atoner, atones, caesar, caners, canoes, canter, cantor.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: carbonates.

 

+2 letters: abreactions, absorptance, aeronautics, anthracnose, ceratopsian, lacerations, macerations, translocate, vacationers.

 

+3 letters: absorptances, altercations, anacreontics, anthracnoses, bicarbonates, cantankerous, ceratopsians, contrabasses, contrastable, decarbonates, declarations, demarcations, emancipators, eradications, fractionates, intercoastal, nonsectarian, rarefactions, ratiocinates, recantations, reclamations, reescalation, scatteration, translocated, translocates, transoceanic.

 

+4 letters: accelerations, agranulocytes, appreciations, archegoniates, coacervations, coastguardmen, congratulates, contraoctaves, coplanarities, deracinations, endoparasitic, exacerbations, manufactories, noncharacters, octogenarians, paramountcies, plantocracies, procrastinate, racemizations, reactionaries, reactivations, reallocations, reescalations, scatterations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OSTRACEAN


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

4F 53 54 52 41 43 45 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)

---    ...    -    .-.    .-    -.-.    .    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001111 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000011 01000101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#69 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0053 0054 0052 0041 0043 0045 0041 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

495354523537393548

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Non-English Dictionaries with "OSTRACEAN"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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