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Definition: Potamogeton |
PotamogetonNoun1. A large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Potamogeton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Synonym: PotamogetonSynonym: genus Potamogeton (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Potamogeton |
| English words defined with "Potamogeton": frog's lettuce. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Potamogeton": pond-weed. (references) |
| "Potamogeton" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Potamogeton" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Potamogeton": genus Potamogeton ♦ Potamogeton americanus ♦ Potamogeton crispus ♦ Potamogeton gramineous ♦ Potamogeton nodosus. 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 |
potamogeton | 5 |
gayi potamogeton | 3 |
crispus potamogeton | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-n-o-o-o-p-t-t" | |
-4 letters: magneto, megaton, metopon, montage, ottoman, pottage, tomenta. | |
-5 letters: gentoo, gotten, magnet, mongoe, notate, omenta, patent, patten, potage, potato, potent, potman, potmen, tampon, teapot, teopan, togate, tomato. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-n-o-o-o-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: photomontage. | |
+2 letters: photomontages. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 74 61 6D 6F 67 65 74 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110100 01100001 01101101 01101111 01100111 01100101 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o t a m o g e t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0074 0061 006D 006F 0067 0065 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)5081866779817371868180 |
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