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Definition: SUPERCILIARY |
SUPERCILIARYAdjective1. Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker. 2. Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital. |
Date "SUPERCILIARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Superciliary \Su`per*cil"i*a*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression supercilium an eyebrow. See Supercilious.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SUPERCILIARY |
| English words defined with "SUPERCILIARY": Supraciliary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SUPERCILIARY": arcus superciliaris. (references) |
Expressions using "SUPERCILIARY": superciliary arch ♦ superciliary ridge. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SUPERCILIARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vetullor, që ndodhet mbi sytë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واقع فوق العين, حاجبي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | намиращ се около веждата, намиращ се над веждата, надочен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | povýšený (condescending, exalted, haughty, supercilious, uppish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sourcilier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hochmütig (arrogant, arrogantly, cavalier, haughtily, haughty, loftily, lofty, lordly, prideful, proud, superciliously, uppish, uppity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemöldök-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uperciliarysay superciliar. (various references) надбровный. (various references) nadobrvni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SUPERCILIARY" (pronounced 'Su`per*cil"i*a*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-p-r-r-s-u-y" | |
-3 letters: peculiars. | |
-4 letters: auricles, calipers, crispier, crispily, lyricise, peculiar, perisarc, piracies, pleurisy, prairies, replicas, reprisal, ruralise, scurrile, specular, spiculae, spicular, spiracle, spirulae, sprucely, sprucier, supercar, superlay, surplice, upraiser. | |
-5 letters: apercus, apiculi, aspirer, auricle, auspice, caliper, capsule, carpels, carpers, carrels, carries, ciliary, claries, clasper, clayier, clerisy, clypeus, crisper, crisply, cruiser, crusily, curares, curaris, curlers, curlier. | |
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