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TUBIPORA

Definition: TUBIPORA

TUBIPORA

Noun

1. A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Tubipora \Tu*bip"o*ra\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression tubus tube porus passage, pore.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: TUBIPORA

English words defined with "TUBIPORA": Organ-pipe coralTubipore. (references)

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Rhyming with "TUBIPORA"

Words rhyming with "TUBIPORA" (pronounced 'Tu*bip"o*ra'): Abra, Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Acetabulifera, Agora, Agouara, Alhambra, Almagra, Amphineura, Amphora, Anaphora, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Aplacophora, Appoggiatura, Aptera, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Barbara, Basommatophora, Brachelytra, Brachyptera, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Calyptra, Camara, Camorra, Capibara, Capra, Capybara, Caracara, Carnivora, Cathedra, Cephalophora, Cephaloptera, Cesura, Chara, Cheiroptera, Chelicera, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TUBIPORA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-o-p-r-t-u"

-2 letters: abrupt, probit, rubati, rubato, tabour, utopia.

-3 letters: abort, about, aport, atrip, biota, boart, bruit, orbit, patio, pruta, ratio, tabor, tapir, turbo, urbia.

-4 letters: abri, abut, airt, atop, auto, bait, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bout, brat, brio, brit, brut, bura, burp, iota, obia, obit, pair, part, pita, port, pour, pout, prao, prat, prau.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-o-p-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: abruption.

 

+2 letters: abruptions.

 

+3 letters: subtropical.

 

+4 letters: perturbation, supraorbital, unprofitable, unprofitably.

 

+5 letters: autobiography, insupportable, insupportably, perambulation, perturbations, republication, unproblematic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TUBIPORA


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

54 55 42 49 50 4F 52 41

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 01010101 01000010 01001001 01010000 01001111 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#85 &#66 &#73 &#80 &#79 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0055 0042 0049 0050 004F 0052 0041

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

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

5455364350495235

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INDEX

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


  

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