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Blastopore

Definition: Blastopore

Blastopore

Noun

1. The opening into the archenteron.

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

Etymology: Blastopore \Blas"to*pore\, noun. [from Greek expression blasto`s sprout English pore.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Blastopore

English words defined with "blastopore": Archaeostomatousblastoporal, blastoporic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "blastopore": Organizers, Embryonic. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Blastopore

"Blastopore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blastopore" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blastopore

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

Danish

  

blastoporus, urmund. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blastoporus, blastopore, protostoma, oermond, anus van Rusconi. (various references)

   

French

  

bouche primitive, blastopore. (various references)

   

German

  

Blastoporus, Urmund. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βλαστόπορος, αρχέγονο στόμα. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astoporeblay

   

Portuguese

  

blastóporo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

blastoporo, ano de Rusconi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Blastopore

Derivations

Words beginning with "blastopore": blastopores. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Blastopore"

Words rhyming with "blastopore" (pronounced 'Blas"to*pore'): Acrospore, Androspore, Anisospore, Arthrospore, Ascospore, Basidiospore, Carpospore, Cellepore, Diaspore, Endospore, Epispore, Exospore, Isospore, Macrospore, Macrozoospore, madrepore, microspore, Microzoospore, Millepore, Neuropore, Nullipore, Oospore, Palempore, Perispore, Phaeospore, Pseudospore, Retepore, Seirospore, Spermatospore, Spermospore, Sphaerospore, spore, Teleutospore, tetraspore, Tubipore, Tubulipore, Underspore, Uredospore, Zygospore. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Blastopore

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: boltropes, portables.

-2 letters: barstool, bloaters, bloopers, boltrope, petrosal, polestar, portable, postoral, potables, probates, sortable, storable.

-3 letters: aerosol, apostle, blaster, bloater, blooper, boaster, boatels, boaters, boleros, bolster, bolters, booster, borates, borstal, esparto, labrets, lobster, loopers, looters, oblates, palters, paroles, patrols, pelotas, persalt, petrols, plaster, platers, poorest, portals, potable, probate, prolate, proteas, psalter, rebatos, reboots.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-o-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: blastopores, blastospore, polysorbate, portabellos.

 

+2 letters: blastospores, polysorbates.

 

+3 letters: claustrophobe, postembryonal.

 

+4 letters: claustrophobes, polycarbonates, postliberation.

 

+5 letters: promotabilities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Blastopore


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

42 6C 61 73 74 6F 70 6F 72 65

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)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#111 &#112 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0073 0074 006F 0070 006F 0072 0065

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

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

36786785868182818471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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