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Definition: Sebaceous |
SebaceousAdjective1. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sebaceous" was first used: 1728. (references) |
Etymology: Sebaceous \Se*ba"ceous\, adjective. [New Latin expression. sebaceus, from the Latin expression sebum tallow, grease.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Gland that secretes sebum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SebaceousSynonyms: greasy (adj), oily (adj), oleaginous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unctuousness | Adjective: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sebaceous |
| English words defined with "sebaceous": acne ♦ Bleareye ♦ chalazion ♦ eye infection ♦ hair follicle, hordeolum ♦ keratosis pilaris ♦ Meibomian cyst, Meibomian gland, Meibomian glands, milium, Montgomery's tubercle ♦ overactivity ♦ pilar cyst, pilosebaceous ♦ sebaceous cyst, Sebiferous, seborrhea, sebum, smegma, steatocystoma, sty, stye ♦ tarsal gland ♦ uropygial gland ♦ Wem, wen, Whitehead. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sebaceous": acne juvenilis, acne simplex ♦ Harderian Gland, hordeolum sty ♦ Neoplasms, Adnexal and Skin Appendage ♦ tarsal glands ♦ vulgaris. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sebaceous": suet. (references) |
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| "Sebaceous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sebaceous" is used about 19 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sebaceous": sebaceous cyst ♦ sebaceous follicle ♦ sebaceous gland ♦ sebaceous glands. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sebaceous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dhjamor (adipose, fatty). (various references) | |
Arabic | دهني (adipose, fatty, fleshy, greasy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мастен (adipose, fatty). (various references) | |
Danish | seborrhoe (sebaceous acne), talgkirtler (follicular glands, sebaceous glands), talgkirtelcarcinom (sebaceous carcinoma), talg (beef tallow, dripping, fat, oleo oil, sebaceous matter, suet, suet oil, tallow, tallow oil), Pringle's sygdom (Pringle-Bourneville syndrome, sebaceous adenoma), hudfedt (sebaceous matter), haarsaekmide (demodex folliculorum hominis, sebaceous mite), Fordyce's kirtler (Fordyce sebaceous glands), demodex folliculorum (demodex folliculorum hominis, sebaceous mite), cirkumskript talgkirtelhyperplasi (circumscribed sebaceous hyperplasia), adenoma sebaceum senile (senile sebaceous hyperplasia Hirschfeld), adenoma sebaceum (Pringle-Bourneville syndrome, sebaceous adenoma). (various references) | |
Dutch | sebum (sebaceous matter), ziekte van Pringle (Pringle-Bourneville syndrome, sebaceous adenoma), talgklier (sebaceous glands), naevus sebaceus (sebaceous adenoma), huidsmeer (sebaceous matter), glandulae sebaceae van Fordyce (Fordyce sebaceous glands), glandula sebacea (sebaceous glands), eczema seborrhoicum (sebaceous acne), dermatitis seborrhoica (sebaceous acne), adenoma sebaceum type Pringle (sebaceous adenoma), adenoma sebaceum (sebaceous adenoma), acne sebacea (keratosis follicularis contagiosa type Morrow-Brooke, sebaceous acne). (various references) | |
Farsi | چربی دار (Fat), چرب (Fat, Fatty, Greasy, Oily, Unctuous). (various references) | |
Finnish | talirauhanen (sebaceous gland). (various references) | |
French | sébacé. (various references) | |
German | Talg (sebum, suet, tallow). (various references) | |
Greek | λιπώδησ (adipose, suety, tallowy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | faggyús. (various references) | |
Italian | sebaceo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 皮脂腺 (sebaceous gland), 皮脂 (sebaceous matter, sebum). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひしせ" (sebaceous gland), ひし (hidden or secret history, sebaceous matter, sebum). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebaceoussay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sebáceo (tallowy). (various references) | |
Romanian | sebaceu. (various references) | |
Russian | сальный (bawdy, greasy, lardy, lewd, salacious, tallowy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mastan (fat, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, racy, rich, risque, scabrous, unctuous), lojni (tallowy). (various references) | |
Spanish | sebáceo. (various references) | |
Swedish | fettavsöndrande. (various references) | |
Turkish | yağlı (adipose, fat, fatty, greasy, oiled, oily, oleaginous, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), yağ içeren. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сальний (greasy, lardy, oily, porky, suety, tallowy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sebum, sebum cutaneum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sebaceous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabaceous, sabacious, sebaccious, sebacious, sebacous, sebasious, Sebastos, selaceous, subaceous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sebaceous" (pronounced subā"shus) |
| 5 | -b ā" sh u s | herbaceous. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u s | audacious, capacious, efficacious, fallacious, flirtatious, gracious, hellacious, loquacious, ostentatious, predaceous, salacious, spacious, tenacious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, auspicious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, ferocious, fictitious, fractious, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, seditious, semiprecious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vicious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-o-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: because, caseose, caseous. | |
-3 letters: abuses, bouses, causes, ceases, sauces, scouse, scubas, subsea. | |
-4 letters: abuse, ascus, bases, basso, beaus, bouse, buses, cases, casus, cause, cease, coses, cubes, cusso, eases, oases, obese, sabes, sauce, scabs, scuba, souse, subas. | |
-5 letters: abos, aces, base, bass, beau, bees, boas, boss, buss, cabs, case, cees, cess, cobs, coss, cube, cubs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sauceboxes. | |
+4 letters: ribonucleases, subadolescent, subcategories. | |
+5 letters: scabrousnesses, subadolescents, subcategorizes, unsociableness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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