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Definition: PERSICARIA |
PERSICARIANoun1. See Lady's thumb. |
Date "PERSICARIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Etymology: Persicaria \Per`si*ca"ri*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from late Latin persicarius peach tree. See Peach.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: PERSICARIA |
| English words defined with "PERSICARIA": Lady's thumb. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PERSICARIA": Christian Traditions. (references) |
Expression using "PERSICARIA": polygonum Persicaria. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
persicaria | 16 |
dragon persicaria red | 6 |
microcephala persicaria | 4 |
persicaria polygonum | 4 |
persicaria polymorpha | 4 |
persicaria virginiana | 3 |
persicaria thunbergii | 2 |
persicaria plant spreading | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PERSICARIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | knudet pileurt (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | viltige duizendknoop (pale persicaria), knopige duizendknoop (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ukontatar (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | renouée gonflée (dock-leaved persicaria, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria), renou?e à feuilles de patience (dock-leaved persicaria, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ampfer-Knoeterich (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολύγονο το λαπαθόφυλλο (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed), λαπάτσα (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | persicaria maggiore (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed), salcerella (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed, purple loosestrife, spiked loosestrife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ersicariapay mal-casada (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed), erva pessegueira bastarda (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) poligono pata de perdiz (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) strandpilört (dock-leaved persicaria, green smartweed, knotted persicaria, pale persicaria, pale smartweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "PERSICARIA" (pronounced 'Per`si*ca"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Aporia, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Curia, Dataria, Dysphoria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, hematuria, Homoeomeria, hysteria, Ichthyosauria, Krameria, Laminaria, Lemuria, Lepidosauria, Lucernaria, malaria, Memoria, Mercenaria, Mesosauria. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-p-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: airscape, airspace, apiaries, crispier, pareiras, perisarc, piracies, prairies. | |
-3 letters: aspirer, carpers, carries, crisper, episcia, pareira, parries, picaras, prairie, praiser, pricers, pricier, rapiers, raspier, repairs, scarier, scarper, scraper, scrapie, spacier, spicier, spiraea, spirier. | |
-4 letters: airers, airier, apices, arecas, aspire, caesar, capers, capias, capris, carers, caries, carper, cerias, crapes, criers, cripes, ericas, escarp, pacers, parers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-p-r-r-s" | |
+2 letters: patriarchies. | |
+3 letters: particularise. | |
+4 letters: cardiographies, hyperparasitic, particularised, particularises, particularizes, prevarications. | |
+5 letters: particularities, prefabrications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 53 49 43 41 52 49 41 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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