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PIRAYA

Definition: PIRAYA

PIRAYA

Noun

1. A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Piraya \Pi*ra"ya\, noun. [From the native name.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PIRAYA

English words defined with "PIRAYA": Pirai. (references)

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Expression: PIRAYA

Expression using "PIRAYA": Serrasalmo piraya. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PIRAYA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

piraya

7

piraya pygocentrus

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: PIRAYA

Derivations

Words beginning with "PIRAYA": pirayas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PIRAYA"

Words rhyming with "PIRAYA" (pronounced 'Pi*ra"ya'): Baya, Khaya, Maya, Pitahaya, Playa, Sankhya, Vaisya. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PIRAYA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: apiary.

Words within the letters "a-a-i-p-r-y"

-2 letters: airy, aria, pair, para, pray, raia, raya.

-3 letters: air, par, pay, pia, pry, pya, rap, ray, ria, rip, rya, yap, yar, yip.

-4 letters: aa, ai, ar, ay, pa, pi, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-p-r-y"
 

+1 letter: airplay, pirayas.

 

+2 letters: agrypnia, airplays, lapidary, papyrian, plagiary, rapacity.

 

+3 letters: agrypnias, antiparty, capillary, papillary, paralysis, paralytic, parlaying, partially, perikarya, planarity, pyramidal, pyromania.

 

+4 letters: antipiracy, capitulary, hypermania, paralysing, paralytics, paralyzing, paraphysis, partiality, partisanly, patriarchy, perikaryal, pyromaniac, pyromanias.

 

+5 letters: angiography, antiphonary, applicatory, appreciably, bipyramidal, calligraphy, capillarity, cardiopathy, coplanarity, disparately, drapability, graphically, hagiography, hypercapnia, hypermanias, hyperphagia, hyperplasia, impartially, inseparably, irreparably, panegyrical, parathyroid, paratyphoid, parfocality, parochially, perinatally, piratically, practicably, practically, prosaically, pyramidally, pyramidical, pyromaniacs, radiography, rapaciously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PIRAYA


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

50 49 52 41 59 41

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 01001001 01010010 01000001 01011001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#82 &#65 &#89 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 0052 0041 0059 0041

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

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

504352355935

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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