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Oxyura

Definition: Oxyura

Oxyura

Noun

1. Ruddy duck.

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


Synonym: Oxyura

Synonym: genus Oxyura (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: maccoa duck (biology & biotechnology), oxyura maccoa.

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Crosswords: Oxyura

English words defined with "Oxyura": genus OxyuraOxyura jamaicensis. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Oxyura

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Usage Frequency: Oxyura

"Oxyura" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oxyura" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Oxyura

Expressions using "Oxyura": genus Oxyura oxyura jamaicensis. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oxyura

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

duck duck jamaicensis oxyura ruddy

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Oxyura

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-o-r-u-x-y"

-2 letters: oryx, roux, your.

-3 letters: oar, ora, our, oxy, rax, ray, rya, yar, you.

-4 letters: ar, ax, ay, or, ox, oy, xu, ya, yo.

 Words containing the letters "a-o-r-u-x-y"
 

+4 letters: auxotrophy, excusatory, oxyuriases, oxyuriasis.

 

+5 letters: exculpatory, expurgatory, extenuatory, hydroxyurea.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Oxyura


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

4F 78 79 75 72 61

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 01111000 01111001 01110101 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#120 &#121 &#117 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0078 0079 0075 0072 0061

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

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

499091878467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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