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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A genus of livebearing cyprinodont fish comprising the guppy and molly. Some species are virtually all female and depend on sperm from other species to stimulate egg development. Poecilia is used in carcinogenicity studies as well as neurologic and physiologic research. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: POECILIA |
| Specialty definitions using "POECILIA": Cyprinodontiformes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| "POECILIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POECILIA" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "POECILIA": Poecilia reticulata. 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 |
poecilia reticulata | 17 |
poecilia | 7 |
latipinna poecilia | 3 |
poecilia velifera | 3 |
poecilia sphenops | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-o-p" | |
-2 letters: epical, plaice, plicae, police. | |
-3 letters: aioli, cilia, copal, ileac, iliac, oleic, pical, pilea, pilei, place, plica. | |
-4 letters: alec, aloe, calo, cape, capo, ceil, ciao, clap, clip, clop, coal, coil, cola, cole, cope, epic, ilea, ilia, lace, laic, leap, lice, lipa, lipe, loca, loci, lope, olea, opal, pace, pail, pale, peal, pial, pica, pice. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-o-p" | |
+2 letters: acidophile, antipolice, episodical, epitomical, neophiliac, periodical. | |
+3 letters: acidophiles, diplomacies, explication, hemophiliac, necrophilia, neophiliacs, pedophiliac, periodicals, pilocarpine, replication, tropicalize. | |
+4 letters: compliancies, complicacies, epicycloidal, episodically, explications, geopolitical, heliographic, hemophiliacs, incompatible, necrophiliac, necrophilias, nonempirical, periodically, pictorialize, pilocarpines, polarimetric, politicalize, porcelainize, profligacies, replications, semitropical, speciational, topicalities, tropicalized, tropicalizes. | |
+5 letters: aperiodically, biocompatible, cephalization, cephaloridine, coplanarities, corporalities, geopolitician, incompatibles, intertropical, kaleidoscopic, lexicographic, microcephalic, microparticle, necrophiliacs, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, nonspecialist, paleobiologic, parfocalities, personalistic, pictorialized, pictorializes, pictorialness, politicalized, politicalizes, porcelainized, porcelainizes, porcelainlike, prebiological, preganglionic, prehistorical, prolificacies, provincialize, reapplication, recompilation, reduplication, republication, semipolitical, semiporcelain. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 45 43 49 4C 49 41 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- . -.-. .. .-.. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01000101 01000011 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O E C I L I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0045 0043 0049 004C 0049 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5049393743464335 |
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