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Collembolan

Definition: Collembolan

Collembolan

Noun

1. Any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water.

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


Synonym: Collembolan

Synonym: springtail (n). (additional references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Collembolan

Derivations

Words beginning with "collembolan": collembolans. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Collembolan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: collembolae. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Collembolan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-l-m-n-o-o"

-4 letters: balloon, bellman, calomel, cembalo, colonel, monocle.

-5 letters: abloom, ballon, beacon, becalm, bemoan, cabmen, clonal, coelom, colone, coombe, locale.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-l-m-n-o-o"
 

+1 letter: collembolans.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Collembolan


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

43 6F 6C 6C 65 6D 62 6F 6C 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101100 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 006C 0065 006D 0062 006F 006C 0061 006E

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

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

3781787871796881786780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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