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PRESCUTUM

Definition: PRESCUTUM

PRESCUTUM

Noun

1. The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Prescutum \Pre*scu"tum\, noun; plural Prescuta. [New Latin expression. See Pr[ae]-, and Scutum.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PRESCUTUM

English words defined with "PRESCUTUM": PrescutaScutum. (references)

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Usage Frequency: PRESCUTUM

"PRESCUTUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRESCUTUM" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "PRESCUTUM"

Words rhyming with "PRESCUTUM" (pronounced 'Pre*scu"tum'): Aconitum, Adiantum, Amentum, Arboretum, Datum, Fretum, frustum, mentum, Mesonotum, Mesorectum, Mesoscutum, Metanotum, momentum, Multum, Notum, Oblatum, Omentum, Petrolatum, Pilentum, Pinetum, Plebiscitum, Postfactum, Postulatum, Prolatum, Pronotum, Punctum, Quantum, Quotum, rectum, sanctum, Sarcoseptum, scrotum, Scutum, septum, sputum, stratum, Striatum, Submentum, substratum, tomentum, ultimatum, Uncinatum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PRESCUTUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-m-p-r-s-t-u-u"

-1 letter: crumpets, cutpurse, spectrum.

-2 letters: crumpet, cuprums, precuts, rectums, stumper, sumpter.

-3 letters: cruets, crumps, cruset, cuprum, curets, cutups, eructs, erupts, estrum, muster, precut, purest, pursue, rectum, rectus, recuts, rumpus, scutum, septum, spruce, sputum, suture, truces, trumps, uterus.

-4 letters: crept, crest, cruet, crump, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutup, ecrus, eruct, erupt, mucus.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-m-p-r-s-t-u-u"
 

+4 letters: supercomputer.

 

+5 letters: micropunctures, supercomputers, superincumbent.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRESCUTUM


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

50 52 45 53 43 55 54 55 4D

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 01010010 01000101 01010011 01000011 01010101 01010100 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#85 &#84 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0053 0043 0055 0054 0055 004D

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

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

505239533755545547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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