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Definition: POLYSPERMY |
POLYSPERMYNoun1. Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoon into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum. |
| Words rhyming with "POLYSPERMY" (pronounced 'Pol"y*sper`my'): Homodermy, Metallochromy, Monochromy, Panspermy, Polychromy, taxidermy, Typocosmy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-o-p-p-r-s-y-y" | |
-2 letters: polymers, polysemy. | |
-3 letters: employs, leprosy, loppers, moppers, polymer, propels, propyls, pyropes. | |
-4 letters: employ, lopers, lopper, mopers, mopery, mopper, morels, morsel, myopes, osprey, peplos, plyers, polers, polyps, popery, proems, proles, propel, propyl, pyrope, sloper, sloppy, sorely, splore, spryly. | |
-5 letters: loper, lopes, loppy, lores, loser, lyres, merls, moles, moper, mopes, mopey, morel, mores, morse, mosey, myope. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-o-p-p-r-s-y-y" | |
+5 letters: plethysmography. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4C 59 53 50 45 52 4D 59 |
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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 01001100 01011001 01010011 01010000 01000101 01010010 01001101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L Y S P E R M Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 0059 0053 0050 0045 0052 004D 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50494659535039524759 |
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