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TRUMPET-SHAPED

Definition: TRUMPET-SHAPED

TRUMPET-SHAPED

Adjective

1. Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRUMPET-SHAPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references)


Crosswords: TRUMPET-SHAPED

English words defined with "TRUMPET-SHAPED": Abronia elliptica, Abronia latifolia, Abronia villosa, Agrostemma githago, anchusa, angel's trumpet, apple of Peru ♦ Beaumontia grandiflora, Bermuda lily, Brugmansia arborea, Brugmansia suaveolens ♦ Campsis radicans, Centaurium calycosum, common thorn apple, Convolvulaceae, corn campion, corn cockle, crown-of-the-field ♦ daffodil, Datura arborea, Datura stramonium, Datura suaveolens, desert sand verbena ♦ Easter lily, Easter lily vine ♦ family Convolvulaceae, firebush ♦ genus Stentor ♦ hooded pitcher plant, huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns ♦ Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed ♦ Lilium longiflorum ♦ maikoa, maravilla, marmalade bush, Mirabilis longiflora, morning-glory family ♦ Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Nepal trumpet flower ♦ rosita ♦ Sarracenia flava, Sarracenia minor, snowball, speaking trumpet, Streptosolen jamesonii, sweet four o'clock, sweet sand verbena ♦ Trumpet animalcule, trumpet creeper, trumpet flower, trumpet honeysuckle, trumpet vine, trumpets ♦ white trumpet lily ♦ yellow pitcher plant, yellow sand verbena, yellow trumpet. (references)

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Usage Frequency: TRUMPET-SHAPED

"TRUMPET-SHAPED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRUMPET-SHAPED" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRUMPET-SHAPED

Language Translations for "TRUMPET-SHAPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

ε–‡ε­ε‘‘ι€ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

트럼펫 ν˜•μ„±ν•˜λŠ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umpet-shapedtray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TRUMPET-SHAPED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: prestamped.

-4 letters: attempers, dapperest, depurates, prepasted, preshaped, pretasted, restamped, shattered, shuttered, smattered, spattered, sputtered, stampeder, superheat, trumpeted, upstarted.

-5 letters: adeptest, amputees, attemper, dempster, demurest, depurate, dumpster, dustheap, earthset, ephedras, hampered, headrest, mastered, mattered, maturest, measured, mustered, muttered, pampered, pastured, pattered, paupered, peartest, pederast, permuted, permutes, persuade, predates, preempts, preheats, prepaste, preshape, prestamp, presumed.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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