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Butterwort

Definition: Butterwort

Butterwort

Noun

1. Any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects.

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

"Butterwort" is a common misspelling or typo for: bitterroot, bittersweet.


Crosswords: Butterwort

English words defined with "butterwort": White rot. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Butterwort

"Butterwort" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Butterwort" 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)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Butterwort

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

butterwort

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Butterwort

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

Dutch

  

vetkruid (stonecrop). (various references)

   

French

  

grassette. (various references)

   

German

  

Fettkraut. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lus y steep (spearwort). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utterwortbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Butterwort

Derivations

Words beginning with "butterwort": butterworts. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Butterwort

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-r-t-t-t-u-w"

-3 letters: torture, trotter.

-4 letters: bettor, burrow, butter, retort, rotter, router, totter, tourer, touter, turbot, turret.

-5 letters: borer, bower, brute, buret, burro, buteo, butte, otter, outer, outre, rebut, retro, rotte, route, rower, torte, toter, tower, trout, truer, tuber, turbo, tutor, utter, wrote.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-r-t-t-t-u-w"
 

+1 letter: butterworts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Butterwort


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

42 75 74 74 65 72 77 6F 72 74

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 01110101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0074 0074 0065 0072 0077 006F 0072 0074

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

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

36878686718489818486

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Butterwort"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatienéerlandais, holländisch, Ollanish, Germaanish

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, DefinitionDuitse, allemand, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtmanx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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