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PTERYGOPODIUM

Definition: PTERYGOPODIUM

PTERYGOPODIUM

Noun

1. A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pterygopodium \Pter`y*go*po"di*um\, noun; plural Pterygopodia. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression fin +, diminutive of foot.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PTERYGOPODIUM

English words defined with "PTERYGOPODIUM": Pterygopodia. (references)

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Rhyming with "PTERYGOPODIUM"

Words rhyming with "PTERYGOPODIUM" (pronounced 'Pter`y*go*po"di*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PTERYGOPODIUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-m-o-o-p-p-r-t-u-y"

-4 letters: pterygium, pterygoid.

-5 letters: groupoid, imported, myriopod, odometry, pogromed, promoted, prompted, pteropod, udometry, uprooted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PTERYGOPODIUM


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

50 54 45 52 59 47 4F 50 4F 44 49 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01011001 01000111 01001111 01010000 01001111 01000100 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0054 0045 0052 0059 0047 004F 0050 004F 0044 0049 0055 004D

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

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

50543952594149504938435547

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INDEX

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


  

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