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PELLICULAR

Definition: PELLICULAR

PELLICULAR

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a pellicle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: PELLICULAR

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Layer

Adjective: lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered; laminated, laminiferous; micaceous; schistose, schistous; scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous; foliated, foliaceous; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic, spathose.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PELLICULAR

Specialty definitions using "PELLICULAR": attached ground waterheld watersuspended water. (references)

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Modern Translations: PELLICULAR

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

Spanish

  

pelicular (filmy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zarsı (membranous), filmsi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PELLICULAR"

Words rhyming with "PELLICULAR" (pronounced 'Pel*lic"u*lar'): Acapsular, Acetabular, Acicular, Acutangular, Adminicular, Alar, Alular, Anangular, Annular, Antisolar, Apicular, Apolar, Appendicular, Arbuscular, Areolar, Astragalar, Astylar, Auricular, Avicular, Avuncular, Axillar, Biangular, Bicapsular, Bicycular, Bifilar, Biglandular, Bilocular, bimolecular, Bimuscular, bipolar, Birectangular, Bivalvular, Bolar, Branular, Burglar, Calycular, Canicular, Cannular, Carbuncular, Cellar, Cellular, Circumpolar, Clancular, Clausular, Clavicular, Condylar, Consular, Cornicular, Corpuscular, Coticular. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PELLICULAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-l-p-r-u"

-2 letters: calliper, cellular, peculiar.

-3 letters: allelic, auricle, caliper, pallier, peculia, perilla, pilular, pleural, replica.

-4 letters: aculei, allure, apercu, caller, carpel, cellar, culler, culpae, curiae, curial, eclair, epical, lacier, laurel, palier, parcel, pillar, pilule, placer, plaice, pleura, plicae, plical, plural, puller, recall, uracil.

-5 letters: areic, ariel, aulic, aurei, auric, caper, carle, carpi, cella, celli, ceria, clear.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PELLICULAR


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

50 45 4C 4C 49 43 55 4C 41 52

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)

01010000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#85 &#76 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 004C 004C 0049 0043 0055 004C 0041 0052

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

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

50394646433755463552

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INDEX

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


  

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