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SPHAERIDIUM

Definition: SPHAERIDIUM

SPHAERIDIUM

Noun

1. A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Sphaeridium \Sph[ae]*rid"i*um\, noun; plural Sph[ae]ridia. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression sphere.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: SPHAERIDIUM

English words defined with "SPHAERIDIUM": Sphaeridia. (references)

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Rhyming with "SPHAERIDIUM"

Words rhyming with "SPHAERIDIUM" (pronounced 'Sph[ae]*rid"i*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: SPHAERIDIUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-i-m-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: praesidium.

-2 letters: presidium.

-3 letters: amidship, impaired, misheard, murphies, peridium, presidia, raphides, samphire, semiarid, semihard, seraphim, shrimped, upraised.

-4 letters: admires, airshed, airship, aphides, aspired, dairies, dampers, dampish, dashier, despair, diapers, diapirs, diaries, diphase, dirhams, dishier, dumpers, dumpier, dumpish, hampers, hardies, harpies, humpier, hurdies, impairs, imperia, impresa, maidish, midairs, midrash, midship, mishear, misread, mushier, peridia, phasmid.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-i-m-p-r-s-u"
 

+5 letters: underemphasizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SPHAERIDIUM


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

53 50 48 41 45 52 49 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)

...    .--.    ....    .-    .    .-.    ..    -..    ..    ..-    --

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

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

01010011 01010000 01001000 01000001 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000100 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#72 &#65 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#68 &#73 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0048 0041 0045 0052 0049 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)

5350423539524338435547

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INDEX

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


  

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