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WANDEROO

Definition: WANDEROO

WANDEROO

Noun

1. A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WANDEROO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Note: Wanderoo \Wan`der*oo"\, noun. [Cingalese wanderu monkey.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: WANDEROO

English words defined with "WANDEROO": Ouanderoo. (references)

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Image Slideshow: WANDEROO

Illustrations:
WANDEROO

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Expression: WANDEROO

Expression using "WANDEROO": great wanderoo. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: WANDEROO

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

Farsi 

  

عنتر. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anderooway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WANDEROO

Derivations

Words beginning with "WANDEROO": wanderoos. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: WANDEROO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-o-r-w"

-2 letters: downer, onward, redowa, roadeo, wander, warden, warned, wonder, wooden.

-3 letters: adore, adorn, adown, anode, awned, dawen, denar, dewan, dewar, donor, dower, drawn, drone, drown, endow, oared, odeon, oread, owned, owner, radon, redan, redon, rewan, rewon, rodeo, rondo, rowan, rowed, rowen, wader, waned, wared, wooed, wooer.

-4 letters: aeon, aero, anew, awed, dare, darn, dawn.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-o-r-w"
 

+1 letter: wanderoos.

 

+2 letters: orangewood, woodenware, woodlander.

 

+3 letters: orangewoods, snowboarder, woodenwares, woodlanders.

 

+4 letters: nonlandowner, snowboarders.

 

+5 letters: foreshadowing, nonlandowners, overshadowing, waterflooding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WANDEROO


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

57 41 4E 44 45 52 4F 4F

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)

01010111 01000001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 004E 0044 0045 0052 004F 004F

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

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

5735483839524949

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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