PAPILLAE

Definition: PAPILLAE

PAPILLAE

Plural

1. Of Papilla

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PAPILLAE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Crosswords: PAPILLAE

English words defined with "PAPILLAE": black tongue ♦ Dorotheanthus bellidiformis ♦ Eolis ♦ furry tongue ♦ hairy tongue ♦ livingstone daisy ♦ papilla, papillate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "PAPILLAE": Adenophorea, Ascaridida ♦ excavatio papillae nervi optici ♦ Filarioidea ♦ Gingivitis, Necrotizing Ulcerative, Glossitis, Benign Migratory ♦ Kidney Medulla, Kidney Papillary Necrosis ♦ Secernentea, Spirurida. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PAPILLAE

Domain	Title
Books	Morphologie der Papillae fungiformes : rasterelektronenmikroskopische, licht- und elektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: PAPILLAE

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The earth is all alive and covered with papillae.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PAPILLAE

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Also note any change in the pattern of the papillae covering the surface of the tongue and examine the tip of the tongue. (references)
		This kind of abutment is more susceptible to shearing forces than the normal interlocked system of epidermal rete ridges and dermal papillae. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PAPILLAE

"PAPILLAE" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.71% of the time. "PAPILLAE" is used about 346 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 (plural)	99.71%	345	15,401
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	346	N/A

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

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Expressions: PAPILLAE

Expressions using "PAPILLAE": excavatio papillae nervi optici ♦ Fungiform papillae. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PAPILLAE

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
papillae	15
circumvallate papillae	7
papillae tongue	6
filiform papillae	3
papillae vestibular	3
papillae tongue white	3
cat papillae	2
papillae vallate	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PAPILLAE

Language		Translations for "PAPILLAE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"头 (Papilla). (various references)

Danish		analpolypper (anal papillae). (various references)

Dutch		anale papillen (anal papillae). (various references)

Finnish		anaalipapillit (anal papillae). (various references)

French		papilles anales (anal papillae). (various references)

German		Analpapille (anal papillae). (various references)

Greek		πρωκτικές θηλές (anal papillae). (various references)

Italian		papille anali (anal papillae). (various references)

Korean		� 두 (Papilla). (various references)

Pig Latin		apillaepay.(various references)

Portuguese		fossa centrada da pupila do nervo óptico (excavatio papillae nervi optici, excavation of papilla of optic nerve). (various references)

Russian		папилла (papilla). (various references)

Spanish		pl. de papilla, papila anal (anal papillae). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PAPILLAE

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	columnae anales. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: PAPILLAE

Misspellings
	"PAPILLAE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: appellee, capellae, cappellae, palilalia, papill, papillas, Papillia, papillo, Papillote, popillae, Popillia, pupilla, pupillare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PAPILLAE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-p-p"
	-1 letter: papilla.
	-2 letters: appall, appeal, paella, paleal, pallia, palpal.
	-3 letters: appal, appel, apple, ileal, lapel, palea, palpi, papal, pepla, pilea, pipal.
	-4 letters: alae, ilea, leal, leap, lipa, lipe, pail, pale, pall, palp, papa, peal, pial, pile, pill, pipe, plea, plie.
	-5 letters: aal, ail, ala, ale, all, alp, ape, ell, ill, lap, lea, lei, lie, lip, pal, pap, pea, pep, pia, pie, pip.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-p-p"
	+1 letter: papillate.
	+2 letters: applicable, impalpable.
	+3 letters: apparelling, appealingly, appellation, appellative.
	+4 letters: appellations, appellatives, inapplicable, wallpapering.
	+5 letters: appealability, appellatively, applicatively, palpabilities, unappealingly.
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