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Ventriculus

Definition: Ventriculus

Ventriculus

Noun

1. Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Ventriculus \Ven*tric"u*lus\, noun; plural Ventriculi. [Latin expression, belly, diminutive from venter belly.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Ventriculus

Synonyms: gastric mill (n), gizzard (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ventriculus

English words defined with "ventriculus": Ventriculi. (references)
Etymologies containing "ventriculus": Ventricle, Ventriculite. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ventriculus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms, Skeletal Muscle Ventricle, stomach, Ventricle).

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Derivations: Ventriculus

Derivations

Words ending with "ventriculus": proventriculus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ventriculus"

Words rhyming with "ventriculus" (pronounced 'Ven*tric"u*lus'): Abaculus, AEolus, Alto-cumulus, Alveolus, Angelus, Annulus, Articulus, Asilus, Astragalus, Bacillus, Baetulus, Bolus, Bucephalus, Callus, Canaliculus, Carolus, Cauliculus, Clitellus, Crotalus, Cucullus, Discobolus, Dolus, Dracunculus, Embolus, Entellus, Fasciculus, Flocculus, funiculus, Gladiolus, Glomerulus, Gryllus, Hamulus, Hectocotylus, hilus, homunculus, Hydrocaulus, hydrocephalus, Iulus, Julus, Lienculus, Limulus, loculus, Malleolus, modiolus, modulus, Monomphalus, Nautilus, Nucellus, Nucleolus, Obelus, Obolus, Ocellus, Oculus, Overplus, Palulus, Palus, Paxillus, Pediculus, Peplus, Pessulus, Phacellus, Phallus, PLUS, Prothallus, Proventriulus, Pullus, Pulvillus, Pulvinulus, Ramulus, Regulus, sacculus, Scamillus, sphacelus, Splenculus, stimulus, Strato-cumulus, Strophulus, Superplus, Tantalus, thallus, Triungulus, Troilus, tumulus, Urceolus, utriculus, Verticillus, Villus, Vitellus, Volvulus, Zulus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ventriculus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-r-s-t-u-u-v"

-2 letters: culverins, unruliest, vulturine.

-3 letters: cultures, culverin, culverts, curliest, curviest, cutlines, incurves, insulter, linecuts, rivulets, tunicles, utricles, venturis, virulent, vultures.

-4 letters: cistern, clients, clivers, cluster, cretins, culture, culvers, culvert, curites, cursive, curvets, cutlers, cutline, encrust, icterus, incrust, incurve, inverts, lectins, leucins, linecut, linters, lucerns, luetics, luniest, lustier, luteins, nucleus, nutsier, relicts, relucts, revuist, rivulet, ruliest, runlets, rutiles, silvern, stencil, striven, stuiver, surveil, triunes, tunicle, uncurls, uniters, unlives, unveils, utensil, utricle, venturi, virtues, vulture.

-5 letters: citers, citrus, civets, clevis, client, clines, cretin, cruets, cruise, cruset, culets, cultus, culver, curets, curies, curite, curule, curves, curvet, cuties, cutins, cutler, elints, enlist, eructs, ervils, estrin, evicts, incest, incult, incurs, incuse, inerts, inlets, insect, insert, insult, insure, inters, inures, invert, invest, lectin, lentic, leucin, levins, liners, linter, listen, lister, liters, litres, livens, livers, livest, livres, lucent, lucern, lucres, luetic, lunets, lunier, lunies, luster, lustre, lutein, nicest, niters, nitres, nuclei, rectus, recuts, relics, relict, relist, reluct, result, rictus, rivets, runlet, rusine, rustic, rustle, rutile, rutins, scrive, silent, silver, sinter, slicer, sliver, sluice, snivel, stelic, steric, stiver, strive, suiter, sunlit, sutler, suture, tenuis, tilers, tinsel, trices, triens, trines, triune, truces, tuners, tunics, turves, ulcers, ulster, uncles, uncurl, uncute, uniter, unites, unlive, unrest, unsure, unties, untrue, unveil, uretic, urines, ursine, uterus, verist, vertus, vilest, virtue, virtus.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-r-s-t-u-u-v"
 

+1 letter: vinicultures.

 

+3 letters: avuncularities, proventriculus.

 

+5 letters: supraventricular.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ventriculus


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

56 65 6E 74 72 69 63 75 6C 75 73

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#117 &#108 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063 0075 006C 0075 0073

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

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

5671808684756987788785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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