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Balsa Wood

Definition: Balsa Wood

Balsa Wood

Noun

1. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.

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

Synonym: Balsa Wood

Synonym: balsa (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Balsa Wood

English words defined with "balsa wood": balsa. (references)
Specialty definitions using "balsa wood": CAVANILLESIA PLATANIFOLIA. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Balsa Wood

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Balsa Wood

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

balsa wood

122

balsa wood glider

19

balsa wood airplane

16

balsa wood model airplane

10

balsa wood supplier

7

balsa wood plane

7

balsa wood model plane

5

balsa wood craft

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Balsa Wood

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

Pig Latin

  

alsabay oodway.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

balsa (balsa, crib, cribbing, ferry, ferryboat, float, hitch, holing, Lido, pond, raft, rettery, swamp). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

balsaträ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Balsa Wood

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-l-o-o-s-w"

-3 letters: adobos, bloods, doblas, woalds.

-4 letters: adobo, albas, awols, baals, balas, balds, balsa, basal, bawds, bawls, blaws, blood, blows, bolas, bolds, bolos, bowls, dobla, loads, lobos, obols, salad, soldo, waldo, woads, woald, wolds, woods, wools.

-5 letters: aals, abas, abos, ados, alas, alba, albs, alow, also, awls, awol, baal, baas, bads, bald, bals, bawd, bawl, blaw, blow, boas, bods, bola, bold, bolo, boos, bowl, bows, dabs, dals, daws, dols, dows, labs, lads, laws, load, lobo, lobs, loos, lows, obol, olds, owls, slab, slaw, slob, slow, soda, sola, sold, solo, swab, swob, wabs, wads, woad, wold, wood, wool, woos.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Balsa Wood


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

42 61 6C 73 61      57 6F 6F 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000010 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100001 00100000 01010111 01101111 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#115 &#97 &#32 &#87 &#111 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006C 0073 0061      0057 006F 006F 0064

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

3667788567257818170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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