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Definition: Pelage |
PelageNoun1. Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Pelage \Pel"age\, noun. [French expression pelage, from the Latin expression pilus hair.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: PelageSynonym: coat (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pelage |
| English words defined with "pelage": Pilage ♦ White rabbit. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pelage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (coat, fur, hide, peel, pelage, skin). |
| 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 |
de essai pelage | 6 |
pelage | 3 |
de pelage test | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pelage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qime (fur, fuzz, hair, Seta), lesh kafshe, gëzof (coat, fur, hide, Peel, pelt, peltry, skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرو (fur, pelt), معط الشعر (tear out), نتف الشعر, إهاب الحيوان الثديي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | козина (bristle, coat, fell, fur, furring, hair, jacket), кожа (derm, fell, fur, furring, head, hide, leather, pelt, skin, wrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | haarbeklaedning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | haarkleed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pelage (peel, peeling), revêtement pileux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Haarkleid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρίχωση, τρίχωμα ζώου (coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szõrzet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rivestimento peloso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elagepay pelagem (hair), peco, revestimento piloso. (various references) шкура (fell, hide, pelt, skin). (various references) vuna (fleece, wool), krzno (coat, fell, fur, hide, pelt), dlaka (braid, hair, pile, whisker). (various references) pelaje (appearance, fur). (various references) hårbeklädnad (coat). (various references) memeli hayvan kürkü, kürk (fur, fur coat). (various references) волосяний покрив. (various references) bộ lông thú, bộ da lông. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pelage": pelages. (additional references) | |
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"Pelage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Delagi, elage, Ephage, melage, palage, Palagi, Palagio, Palago, palare, Pallagi, Parlagi, peagen, Pelagi, Pelagia, pelagian, pelagin, Pelagio, pelago, pelame, pelee, pellate, peloge, peluge, petage, Pfleger, pilae, pilare, pilige, plag, plaget, pleabe, pleage, pleague, plege, Plegel, plesage, Poage, Polge, Pollage, pologa, pulge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pelage" (pronounced 'Pel"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Demorage, Disusage, Dockage, Domage, Doomage, Dosage, Drainage, Drayage, Driftage, Drownage, Dumpage, Eatage. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-p" | |
-1 letter: aglee, eagle, peage, plage. | |
-2 letters: agee, alee, egal, gale, gape, glee, leap, page, pale, peag, peal, peel, pele, plea. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, alp, ape, eel, gae, gal, gap, gee, gel, lag, lap, lea, lee, leg, pal, pea, pee, peg. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, al, el, la, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-p" | |
+1 letter: epigeal, pelages. | |
+2 letters: perigeal, prelegal. | |
+3 letters: beleaping, gantelope, grapelike, pentangle, pilferage, porbeagle, pregnable, repealing, telegraph. | |
+4 letters: empaneling, epipelagic, esophageal, gantelopes, goalkeeper, hemiplegia, legateship, megalopses, pentangles, permillage, persiflage, pilferages, plasmagene, porbeagles, pregenital, presageful, repaneling, repleading, superlarge, telegraphs, telegraphy. | |
+5 letters: empanelling, espaliering, frankpledge, generalship, goalkeepers, hemiplegias, impregnable, leapfrogged, legateships, mesopelagic, overleaping, pedestaling, permillages, persiflages, pigheadedly, plangencies, plasmagenes, praelecting, precleaning, preclearing, prolegomena, repanelling, telegraphed, telegrapher, telegraphic, upgradeable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6C 61 67 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e l a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006C 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507178677371 |
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