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Definition: Physalia |
PhysaliaNoun1. Portuguese man-of-war. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Physalia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Physalia \Phy*sa"li*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression bladder, from bellows.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Physalia" is a common misspelling or typo for: Physician. |
Synonym: PhysaliaSynonym: genus Physalia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Physalia |
| English words defined with "Physalia": genus Physalia ♦ Physaliae, Physograde, Pneumatocyst, Pneumonophora. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Physalia physalis - Portuguese Man of War. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, p. 57. Library Call Number 525.8 B77.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A beautiful physalia in a glass sample jar. Plate VIII, print 12. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Physalia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Physalia" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Physalia": genus Physalia ♦ Physalia arethusa. 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 |
physalia | 6 |
physalia physalis | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "Physalia" (pronounced 'Phy*sa"li*a'): Abdominalia, Acholia, Alalia, Antlia, Aurelia, Bacchanalia, Cerealia, Coelia, Dahlia, Generalia, Grindelia, Linguatulida, lobelia, Lupercalia, magnolia, Mammalia, Marginalia, melancholia, Nebalia, Neuroglia, Paraphernalia, Penetralia, Prosocoelia, Pseudocoelia, Quinquennalia, replica, Rosalia, Saturnalia, stapelia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: aliyahs, apishly. | |
-2 letters: aliyah, aliyas, alphas, palais, palish, phials, plashy, playas. | |
-3 letters: alias, aliya, alpha, aphis, apish, asyla, ayahs, hails, haply, hylas, lapis, pails, paisa, palsy, pasha, phial, phyla, plash, playa, plays, salpa, shaly, shily, spahi, spail, splay, sylph. | |
-4 letters: aahs, aals, ails, alas, alps, ashy, ayah, hail, haps, hasp, hays, hila, hips, hyla. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: diaphyseal, diaphysial, hypoplasia. | |
+3 letters: anaphylaxis, hyperplasia, hypoplasias, polyphagias. | |
+4 letters: diaphanously, hyperplasias, hypokalemias, metaphysical, seraphically. | |
+5 letters: astrophysical, hypocalcemias, pharisaically, rhapsodically, ultraphysical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 79 73 61 6C 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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