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Pistia Stratiotes

Definition: Pistia Stratiotes

Pistia Stratiotes

Noun

1. Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes.

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Specialty Definitions: Pistia Stratiotes

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Botanical

The leaves are mixed with soups but they should be parboiled to remove oxalate crystals. They are used to combat colds, dysentery. The ashes may be used as salt. Crushed leaves serve to dress abscesses, hemorrhoids, and ulcers. The roots are laxative and emollient, and used in cures for asthma, diabetes, dysnetery, and tuberculosis. (references)

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Synonyms: Pistia Stratiotes

Synonyms: pistia (n), water cabbage (n), water lettuce (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pistia Stratiotes

Non-English Usage: "Pistia Stratiotes" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Water lettuce).

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Image Slideshow: Pistia Stratiotes

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pistia Stratiotes

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.
 
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pistia stratiotes

11
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Anagrams: Pistia Stratiotes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: prostatitises.

-5 letters: apostatises, parasitises, parasitoses, parasitosis, parotitises, periostitis, prostatitis, separatists.

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Alternative Orthography: Pistia Stratiotes


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

50 69 73 74 69 61      53 74 72 61 74 69 6F 74 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100001 00100000 01010011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110100 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#97 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#116 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0069 0073 0074 0069 0061      0053 0074 0072 0061 0074 0069 006F 0074 0065 0073

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

507585867567253868467867581867185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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