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Definition: RAFFLESIA |
RAFFLESIANoun1. A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet. |
"RAFFLESIA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Raffles. |
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Rafflesia arnoldi Rafflesia cantleyi Rafflesia gadutensis Rafflesia hasseltii Rafflesia keithii Rafflesia kerrii Rafflesia manillana Rafflesia micropylora Rafflesia patma Rafflesia pricei Rafflesia rochussenii Rafflesia schadenbergiana Rafflesia speciosa Rafflesia tengku-adlinii Rafflesia tuan-mudae | ||||||||||||
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowers. It contains 18 species (including 4 incompletely known species as recognized by Meijer [1997]), all found in South-East Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Kalimantan, and the Philippines. The flowers have no leaves and hardly any stem, just a huge speckled 5-petaled flower with a diameter up to one meter, and weighting up to 10 kilogram. The flower smells like rotting meat, hence its local name translates to corpse flower. It is parasitic on a vine, spreading its roots inside the vine. The fruit is eaten by tree shrews.
The species Rafflesia arnoldi is the world's largest single flower. It was discovered in the Indonesian rain forest by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818.
The world's largest inflorescence is borne by Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum); its individual flowers are arranged in a spadix.
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| "RAFFLESIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RAFFLESIA" 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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Expression using "RAFFLESIA": Rafflesia Arnoldi. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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rafflesia | 39 |
flower rafflesia | 5 |
arnoldii rafflesia | 4 |
arnoldi rafflesia | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "rafflesia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | afflesiaray.(various references) | |
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Words beginning with "RAFFLESIA": rafflesias. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "RAFFLESIA" (pronounced 'Raf*fle"si*a'): Abasia, Acinesia, AEsthesia, Akinesia, Amnesia, Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Antonomasia, Aphrasia, Aplasia, Athrepsia, Atresia, Dionysia, Dysaesthesia, Dyscrasia, Ecclesia, Eclampsia, Ectasia, Entasia, Euthanasia, Fantasia, Frambaesia, fuchsia, Halesia, Hemianaesthesia, Hyperaesthesia, Hyperesthesia, hyperplasia, Ichthyopsida, macroglossia, magnesia, Marsipobranchia, Monesia, Neoplasia, Palingenesia, Paralgesia, Parnassia, Paronomasia, Parousia, Parrhesia, Parusia, Passiflora, Phlegmasia, Photopsia, Polydipsia, Pseudaesthesia, Quassia, Russia, Sauropsida, Silesia, Syngenesia, Tephrosia, Xenelasia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: affaires. | |
-2 letters: aerials, affaire, affairs, farfals, farfels, raffias, raffles, riffles. | |
-3 letters: aerial, affair, ariels, falser, falsie, farfal, farfel, farles, ferial, ferias, fifers, filers, flairs, flares, fliers, frails, fraise, lifers, raffia, raffle, realia, resail, riffle, rifles, safari, sailer, serail, serial. | |
-4 letters: afars, afire, aisle, alefs, alfas, alias, alifs, areal, areas, arias, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, fails, fairs, false, fares, farle, farls, fears, feral, feria, fiars, fiefs, fifer, fifes, filar, filer, files, fires, flair, flare, fleas, flier, flies, frail, fries, frise, laari, lairs, lares, laris, laser, leafs, lears, liars, liers, lifer, liras, raffs, raias, rails, raise, rales, reals, reifs, rials, riels, riffs, rifle, riles, safer, serai, seral, serif, slier. | |
-5 letters: aals, afar, ails, airs, alae, alar, alas, alef, ales, alfa, alif, area, ares, arfs, aria, aril, arse, asea, earl, ears, effs, eras, fail, fair, fare, farl, feal, fear, fiar, fief, fife, fila, file, fils, fire, firs, flea, frae, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, leaf, lear, leas, leis, liar, lief, lier, lies, life, lira, lire, raff, raia, rail, rale, rase, real, refs, reif, reis, rial, rias, riel, rife, riff, rifs, rile, rise, safe, sail, sale, sari, seal, sear, seif, self, sera, serf, sial, sire. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-f-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: rafflesias. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000001 01000110 01000110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A F F L E S I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 0046 0046 004C 0045 0053 0049 0041 |
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