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Asafetida

Definition: Asafetida

Asafetida

Noun

1. The gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic.

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

Crosswords: Asafetida

English words defined with "asafetida": Assaf/tida ♦ Ferulic ♦ galbanum, gum albanum ♦ Protocatechuic ♦ Resorcin ♦ Umbelliferone. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Asafetida

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
asafetida	11
asafetida tincture	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Asafetida

Language		Translations for "asafetida"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		阿魏 (Asafoetida). (various references)

Finnish		hajupihka. (various references)

Pig Latin		asafetidaay

Spanish		asa fétida (asafoetida). (various references)

Turkish		şeytantersi (asafoetida), çadıruşağı out (asafoetida, gum ammoniacum). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Asafetida

Derivations
	Words beginning with "asafetida": asafetidas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Asafetida" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asafatida, Assafaniya, assafetida, Azofeifa, esafetida. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Asafetida

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-f-i-s-t"
	-3 letters: defats, fasted, fiesta, fisted, sifted, stadia, tafias.
	-4 letters: adits, aides, aside, dates, defat, defis, deist, diets, ditas, dites, edits, fades, fated, fates, feast, feats, feist, fetas, fetid, fiats, ideas, sated, sited, stade, staid, stead, stied, tafia, tides, tsade, tsadi.
	-5 letters: adit, aide, aids, aits, asea, ates, daft, dais, data, date, deaf, defi, deft.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-e-f-i-s-t"
	+1 letter: asafetidas, asafoetida.
	+2 letters: asafoetidas.
	+4 letters: fantasticated.
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Alternative Orthography: Asafetida

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

41 73 61 66 65 74 69 64 61

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)

01000001 01110011 01100001 01100110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#97 &#102 &#101 &#116 &#105 &#100 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0073 0061 0066 0065 0074 0069 0064 0061

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

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

358567727186757067

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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