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Definition: Uca |
UcaNoun1. Fiddler crabs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Uca" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
"Uca" is a common misspelling or typo for: Ace, Can, Cuba, Cue, Ice, Puce, Ulcer, Uncap, Use, Yucca. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
UCA | English | United Chemists'Association | Chemistry |
UCA | French | UC verte | Economics |
UCA | Spanish | Unidad de cuenta agrÃcola | Food & Agriculture, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: UcaSynonym: genus Uca (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Uca |
| Non-English Usage: "Uca" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (fiddler, fiddler crab), Portuguese (agricultural accounting unit, agricultural unit of account). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Male fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, sporting its large protective claw as it attempts to hide under the glasswort, Salicornia sp. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. A red-jointed fiddler crab - Uca minax. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expression using "Uca": genus Uca. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
uca | 303 | latimanus uca | 3 |
uca cheerleading | 75 | star uca | 3 |
cheer uca | 28 | el salvador uca | 3 |
camp cheer uca | 24 | uca uruguayensis | 3 |
camp cheerleading uca | 22 | pugilator uca | 2 |
camp uca | 18 | cheerleading competition uca | 2 |
cheerleader uca | 17 | cycling uca utah | 2 |
metin uca | 9 | ar conway uca | 2 |
national uca | 7 | arkansas uca | 2 |
staff uca | 6 | cheer uca video | 2 |
conway uca | 5 | cheerleading staff uca | 2 |
cash flow uca | 4 | camp cheerleader uca | 2 |
uca uda | 4 | camp summer uca | 2 |
arkansas conway uca | 3 | 2003 camp uca | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Uca": sambuca, verruca, yuca. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Uca": antieducational, araucaria, araucarian, araucarias, archducal, coeducation, coeducational, coeducationally, coeducations, countereducational, ducal, ducally, ducat, ducats, educabilities, educability, educable, educables, educate, educated, educatedness, educatednesses, educates, educating, education, educational, educationalist, educationalists, educationally, educationese, educationeses, educationist, educationists, educations, educative, educator, educators, eucaine, eucaines, eucalypt, eucalypti, eucalyptol, eucalyptole, eucalyptoles, eucalyptols, eucalypts, eucalyptus, eucalyptuses, eucaryote, eucaryotes, faucal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-u" | |
+1 letter: caul, yuca. | |
+2 letters: acute, adunc, amuck, arcus, ascus, aulic, auric, caput, casus, cauld, caulk, cauls, cause, chufa, crura, culpa, cuppa, curia, ducal, ducat, guaco, musca, nucha, pucka, quack, sauce, sauch, saucy, scaup, scaur, scuba, scuta, sumac, umiac, uncap, uncia, vacua, yucas, yucca. | |
+3 letters: abacus, abduce, abduct, abulic, acajou, acarus, accrue, accuse, acetum, acinus, acquit, actual, acuate, acuity, aculei, acumen, acuter, acutes, adduce, adduct, aecium, almuce, amicus, amucks, anuric, apercu, aucuba, avouch, backup, bacula, buccal, buckra, cachou, cactus, caecum, caique, callus, calque, campus, canful, cangue, cantus, canula, capful, carful, carpus, casque, casual, catgut, catsup, caucus, caudad, caudal, caudex, caudle, caught, caulds, caules, caulis, caulks, causal, caused, causer, causes, causey, cayuse, cedula, cesura, chabuk, chaunt, chiaus, chufas, chukar, chukka, claque, clause, clavus, copula, cornua, coteau, cougar, crural, cubage, cuesta, cullay, culpae, cuneal, cupola, cuppas, cupula, curacy, curagh, curara, curare, curari, curate, curiae, curial, curran, curtal, cushat, cushaw, cutlas, ducats, ductal, faceup, facula, faucal, fauces, faucet, fecula, fulcra, gauche, gaucho, glucan, guacos, guaiac, haunch, hubcap, jaunce, lacuna, lacune, launce, launch, lunacy, macula, macule, mucosa, mudcap, mudcat, muscae, muscat, nautch, nuance, nuchae, nuchal, ocular, oscula, outact, paunch, quacks, quaich, raunch, rubace, sacbut, sacque, sacrum, sauced, saucer, sauces, sauchs, scaups, scaurs, scubas, soucar, succah, sulcal, sumach, sumacs, talcum, teacup, toucan, tunica, turaco, umiack, umiacs, uncage, uncake, uncaps, uncase, unciae, uncial, unclad, unlace, unpack, untack, upcast, uracil, uranic, uratic, usance, vacuum, vicuna, waucht, yuccas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 63 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -.-. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0063 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)556967 |
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