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Definition: Butterflyfish |
ButterflyfishNoun1. Tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ButterflyfishSynonyms: flying gurnard (n), flying robin (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: butterflyfishes (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Butterflyfish |
| English words defined with "butterflyfish": Holocanthus tricolor ♦ rock beauty. (references) |
| "Butterflyfish" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Butterflyfish" is used about 24 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.5% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.5% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
butterflyfish | 13 |
butterflyfish foureye | 2 |
copperband butterflyfish | 2 |
butterflyfish gallery | 2 |
saddleback butterflyfish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chaetodontidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-f-h-i-l-r-s-t-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: butterfish. | |
-4 letters: blueshift, brutishly, butterfly, fruitlets, ruffliest, ruttishly, thuribles. | |
-5 letters: bitterly, blistery, blithers, blithest, bluefish, bluffers, bluffest, blustery, brittles, brulyies, buffiest, burliest, bushfire, filberts, flitters, flutiest, flutters, fluttery, flytiers, fruitlet, furthest, huffiest, luthiers, shuffler, siffleur, slithery, sluttier, stuffier, stuffily, stultify, subtiler, subtilty, subtitle, subtlety, thurible, tributes, triethyl, tristful, truffles, trustily, turbeths, turbiths, turfiest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 74 74 65 72 66 6C 79 66 69 73 68 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100110 01101100 01111001 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u t t e r f l y f i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0074 0074 0065 0072 0066 006C 0079 0066 0069 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36878686718472789172758574 |
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