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Bryozoan

Definition: Bryozoan

Bryozoan

Noun

1. Sessile aquatic animal forming mosslike colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding.

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


Synonyms: Bryozoan

Synonyms: moss animal (n), polyzoan (n), sea mat (n), sea moss (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bryozoan

English words defined with "bryozoan": BryozoumCoenoecium, CorallineHornwrackLunulitemoss animalSea scurfzooid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bryozoan": spergenite. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bryozoan

DomainTitle

Books

  • Redescription of type specimens of species of the bryozoan genera Dekayia, Homotrypa, and Stigmatella from Upper Ordovician rocks along Workman's Creek, Ontario (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Bryozoan

Illustrations:
Bryozoan

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Photo Album: Bryozoan

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Parupeneus multifasciatus - a red goatfish. Orange bryozoan colonizing underside of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

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

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Usage Frequency: Bryozoan

"Bryozoan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bryozoan" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Bryozoan

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

Korean 

  

이끼 벌 . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yozoanbray

   

Spanish

  

briozoario (bryozoon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Bryozoan

Derivations

Words beginning with "bryozoan": bryozoans. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Bryozoan"

Words rhyming with "bryozoan" (pronounced 'Bry`o*zo"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Genian, Gigantean, Iroquoian, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean, OEnocyan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bryozoan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-n-o-o-r-y-z"

-2 letters: barony, baryon, bronzy, zonary.

-3 letters: aboon, barny, baron, bazoo, boozy, boron, boyar, rayon.

-4 letters: azon, barn, boar, bony, boon, boor, bora, born, boyo, bozo, bran, bray, broo, nary, oozy, orby, orzo, roan, yarn, zany, zoon.

-5 letters: abo, aby, any, arb, azo, ban, bar, bay, boa, boo, boy, bra, bro, nab, nay, nob, noo, nor.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-n-o-o-r-y-z"
 

+1 letter: bryozoans.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bryozoan


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

42 72 79 6F 7A 6F 61 6E

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 01110010 01111001 01101111 01111010 01101111 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#121 &#111 &#122 &#111 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0079 006F 007A 006F 0061 006E

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

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

3684918192816780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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