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PERIOSTRACUM

Definition: PERIOSTRACUM

PERIOSTRACUM

Noun

1. A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; -- called also epidermis.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Periostracum \Per`i*os"tra*cum\, noun; plural Periostraca. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression around shell of testacean.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PERIOSTRACUM

English words defined with "PERIOSTRACUM": Periostraca. (references)

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Usage Frequency: PERIOSTRACUM

"PERIOSTRACUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PERIOSTRACUM" 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
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Rhyming with "PERIOSTRACUM"

Words rhyming with "PERIOSTRACUM" (pronounced 'Per`i*os"tra*cum'): Hypericum, Mesocaecum, Mesymnicum, Offscum, Panicum, Proostracum, Tucum, Viaticum, Viscum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PERIOSTRACUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: imperators, mortuaries, precarious, supermicro.

-3 letters: ametropic, armouries, autoecism, capturers, castoreum, comparers, computers, copremias, costumier, courtiers, cremators, croupiers, croupiest, impacters, impactors, imparters, imperator, importers, imposture, misreport, mousetrap, operatics, oratrices, outcapers, outprices, preatomic, priorates, prosateur, pterosaur, reimports, scripture, septarium, spermatic, trimerous, turmerics.

-4 letters: acrotism, airports, amortise, apomicts, apricots, apterium, apterous, armoires, armories, atomiser, atropism, autecism.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: superromantic.

 

+3 letters: mercaptopurines, ultramicroscope.

 

+4 letters: superromanticism, ultramicroscopes.

 

+5 letters: superromanticisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERIOSTRACUM


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

50 45 52 49 4F 53 54 52 41 43 55 4D

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)

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

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

01010000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001111 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0049 004F 0053 0054 0052 0041 0043 0055 004D

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

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

503952434953545235375547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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