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Definition: PROCRIS |
PROCRISNoun1. Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves. |
Date "PROCRIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Etymology: Procris \Pro"cris\, noun. [Latin expression, the wife of Cephalus, Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
"PROCRIS" is a common misspelling or typo for: Procuress. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Procris Unerring as the dart of Procris. When Procris fled from Cephalus out of shame, Diana gave her a dog that never failed to secure its prey, and a dart which not only never missed aim, but which always returned of its own accord to the shooter. (See Cephalus .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Eos kidnapped Cephalus when he was hunting but he refused to be unfaithful to Procris. Cephalus accidentally killed Procris some time later after he mistook her for an animal while hunting; Procris, a jealous wife, was spying on him. Cephalus was exiled for the death of his wife.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Procris."
Crosswords: PROCRIS |
| Specialty definitions using "PROCRIS": Cephalus and Procris ♦ Shafalus. (references) |
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| "PROCRIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PROCRIS" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-p-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: priors. | |
-2 letters: coirs, corps, crisp, crops, orris, pisco, prior, scrip. | |
-3 letters: coir, cops, cors, cris, crop, orcs, pics, piso, pois, pros, rips, rocs, scop, sori, spic. | |
-4 letters: cis, cop, cor, cos, ops, orc, ors, pic, pis, poi, pro, psi, rip, roc, sic, sip, sir, sop, sri. | |
-5 letters: is, op, or, os, pi, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-p-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ripcords. | |
+2 letters: croupiers, proscribe. | |
+3 letters: coprisoner, descriptor, intercrops, micropores, microprism, microspore, overprices, paregorics, precarious, predictors, prescoring, proscribed, proscriber, proscribes, rectorship, scriptoria, supermicro. | |
+4 letters: archesporia, chairperson, compromiser, conspirator, coprisoners, copywriters, corporatism, corporatist, corruptions, cupriferous, curatorship, descriptors, dropkickers, harpsichord, micrographs, microporous, microprisms, microprobes, microsphere, microspores, overprecise, prehistoric, procercoids, proclaimers, proctorship, proscribers, proscribing, protreptics, reciprocals, rectorships, replicators, scriptorium, spirometric, supermicros, tetrasporic, triceratops. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 4F 43 52 49 53 |
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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).--. .-. --- -.-. .-. .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01010010 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R O C R I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 004F 0043 0052 0049 0053 |
| 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)50524937524353 |
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