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STYLASTER

Definition: STYLASTER

STYLASTER

Noun

1. Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Stylaster \Sty*las"ter\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression pillar star.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: STYLASTER

English words defined with "STYLASTER": Hydrocorallia. (references)

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Photo Album: STYLASTER

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Figures 1-7, Cladocora arbuscula Milne-Edw. and Haime. Figures 8 and 9, Oculina varicosa Leseuer. Figures 10-12, Oculinea diffusa Lamarck. Figures 14-17, Oculina pallens, Ehr. Figures 18-24, Stylaster sanguineus Val. Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate III. These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

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

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Rhyming with "STYLASTER"

Words rhyming with "STYLASTER" (pronounced 'Sty*las"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Bunter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Clyster, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STYLASTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-r-s-s-t-t-y"

-1 letter: starlets, startles.

-2 letters: artless, estrays, lasters, latests, lysates, rattles, rayless, salters, saltest, slaters, slayers, stalest, starets, starlet, startle, startsy, stately, staters, stayers, stylate, stylers, stylets, tasters, tetryls, trystes, yatters.

-3 letters: alerts, alters, artels, assert, asters, elytra, estral, estray, lasers, laster, latest, latter, lattes, layers, leasts, lyases, lyrate, lysate, lyttae, lyttas, rassle, ratels, rattle.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r-s-s-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: flyswatters.

 

+3 letters: crystallites, extrasystole.

 

+4 letters: assortatively, erythroblasts, extrasystoles, southeasterly.

 

+5 letters: transsexuality.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STYLASTER


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

53 54 59 4C 41 53 54 45 52

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 01010100 01011001 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#89 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0059 004C 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052

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

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

535459463553543952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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