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XYSTER

Definition: XYSTER

XYSTER

Noun

1. An instrument for scraping bones.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Xyster \Xys"ter\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression xysth`r scraper.]. (references)


Modern Translation: XYSTER

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

Bulgarian 

  

распатор. (various references)

   

Czech

  

instrument na oškrábání kostí. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξυστήρ χειρουργού. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vakarókés. (various references)

   

Italian

  

raschiatoio (curette, disc scraper, raker, raspatory, scraper). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ysterxay

   

Portuguese

  

xistro, raspador de ossos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

распатор. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

strugač (scraper, turner). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: XYSTER

Derivations

Words beginning with "XYSTER": xysters. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "XYSTER"

Words rhyming with "XYSTER" (pronounced 'Xys"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Bunter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Clyster, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater. (additional references)

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Anagrams: XYSTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-r-s-t-x-y"

-1 letter: treys, tyers, tyres.

-2 letters: erst, rest, rets, ryes, sext, sexy, stey, stye, trey, tyer, tyes, tyre, xyst.

-3 letters: ers, res, ret, rex, rye, ser, set, sex, sty, try, tye, yes, yet.

-4 letters: er, es, et, ex, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-r-s-t-x-y"
 

+1 letter: xysters.

 

+2 letters: styraxes.

 

+3 letters: apteryxes, taxpayers.

 

+4 letters: excusatory, expository, hypertexts, thyroxines, xerophytes.

 

+5 letters: axisymmetry, dexterously, oxygenators, protoxylems, pyroxenites, xerophytism.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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