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Altricial

Definition: Altricial

Altricial

Adjective

1. (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food.

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

Antonym: precocial (adj). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Altricial

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In biology, altricial species are those that demonstrate the developmental pattern in which newly born or hatched young are relatively immobile, have closed eyes, lack hair or down, and must be cared for by the adults. Altricial young are born helpless and require care for a comparatively long time. Contrast to precocial.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Altricial."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Altricial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  altricial

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

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Modern Translations: Altricial

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

Dutch

  

nestblijver (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

altrisiaalinen lintu (altricial bird, nidicolous bird), pesäviipyinen lintu (altricial bird, nidicolous bird), nidikolinen lintu (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

French

  

oiseau nidicole (altricial bird). (various references)

   

German

  

Nesthocker (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωλεόβιο πτηνό (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

Italian

  

uccello nidicolo (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

altricialay

   

Portuguese

  

ave nidícola (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ave nidícola (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bostannare (altricial bird, nidicolous bird). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Altricial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-l-r-t"

-1 letter: iatrical.

-3 letters: atrial, citral, iatric, italic, laical, lariat, latria, racial, rictal.

-4 letters: aalii, acari, altar, artal, atria, calla, carat, cilia, craal, iliac, ilial, laari, licit, lilac, litai, ratal, riata, talar, tiara, tical, trail, triac, trial, trill.

-5 letters: acta, airt, alar, alit, aria, aril, call, carl, cart, clit, ilia, laic, lair, lari, lati, liar, lilt.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-l-r-t"
 

+2 letters: capillarity, multiracial, piratically, satirically, triadically.

 

+3 letters: anticlerical, aoristically, artificially, artistically, hieratically, interglacial.

 

+4 letters: anticlericals, arthritically, calligraphist, capillarities, diametrically, dictatorially, impractically, interglacials, interracially, orgiastically, parasitically, participially, patriotically, prismatically, puritanically, realistically, recallability, sybaritically, ultracritical.

 

+5 letters: altruistically, anchoritically, antiallergenic, antidromically, aphoristically, arithmetically, bactericidally, calligraphists, clairaudiently, iatrogenically, inarticulately, inartistically, interdialectal, intracardially, intracranially, moralistically, multifactorial, multiracialism, parabiotically, primatological, ultrarealistic, urbanistically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Altricial


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

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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)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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