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TABANUS

Definition: TABANUS

TABANUS

Noun

1. A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TABANUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Tabanus \Ta*ba"nus\, noun. [Latin expression, horsefly.]. (Websters 1913)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: TABANUS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tabanus

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

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Modern Translations: TABANUS

Language Translations for "TABANUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(house fly, Tabanus trigonus). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abanustay.(various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гедзь (bot-fly, brimse, cleg, gad-fly, horsefly, oestrus, ox-fly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TABANUS"

Words rhyming with "TABANUS" (pronounced 'Ta*ba"nus'): Agnus, Alumnus, Anthrenus, Anus, Bonus, Cincinnus, Clonus, Conus, Cothurnus, Cygnus, Dictamnus, Echinus, Faunus, genus, Janus, Marbrinus, Onus, Pandanus, Pannus, Pignus, Pinus, subgenus, tonus, Turnus, Uncinus, Varanus, Venus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TABANUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: tabuns.

-2 letters: abuts, antas, aunts, bunts, sauna, tabun, tabus, tsuba, tubas, tunas.

-3 letters: abas, abut, anas, ansa, anta, ants, anus, aunt, baas, bans, bast, bats, buns, bunt, bust, buts, nabs, nubs, nuts, snub, stab, stub, stun, suba, tabs, tabu, tans, taus, tuba, tubs, tuna, tuns, utas.

-4 letters: aas, aba, abs, ana, ant, baa, ban, bas, bat, bun, bus, but, nab, nub, nus, nut, sab, sat, sau, sub, sun, tab, tan, tas, tau, tub, tun, uns, uta, uts.

-5 letters: aa, ab, an, as, at, ba, na, nu, ta, un, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-n-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: autobahns, rambutans.

 

+4 letters: abjurations, ambulations, beauticians, fantabulous, outbalances, outbargains, sauerbraten, subnational, subrational, substandard, substantial, sustainable, tabulations, unballasted.

 

+5 letters: adumbrations, blastulation, confabulates, constabulary, entablatures, habitualness, habituations, lactalbumins, masturbating, masturbation, sauerbratens, somnambulant, somnambulate, subantarctic, substantials, substantiate, substantival, subterranean, transfusable, transmutable, unmistakable, unmistakably, urbanisation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TABANUS


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

54 41 42 41 4E 55 53

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)

01010100 01000001 01000010 01000001 01001110 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#65 &#66 &#65 &#78 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0041 0042 0041 004E 0055 0053

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

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

54353635485553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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