Delphinium

Definition: Delphinium

Delphinium

Noun

1. Any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances.

Crosswords: Delphinium

English words defined with "delphinium": Consolida, Consolida ambigua ♦ Delphinic, Delphinine, Delphinium ajacis ♦ genus Consolida, genus Delphinium ♦ larkspur ♦ rocket larkspur. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Delphinium" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (delphinium, larkspur).

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Commercial Usage: Delphinium

Domain	Title
Books	Delphinium Blossoms (reference) Delphinium Blues (reference) Delphinium Girl (reference) Revisi� biosistem�tica del gènere Delphinium L. a la Pen�nsula Ibèrica i a les illes Balears (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Delphinium

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Photo Album: Delphinium

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Medium shot of Delphinium and Tiny Trumpet wildflowers, Lakeview District.Credit: Terry Spivey.		Medium shot of Delphinium.Credit: John Craig.
	Medium shot of Delphinium wildflower.Credit: John Craig.		Medium shot of Delphinium wildflower.Credit: John Craig.
	Closeup shot of Delphinium wildflower.Credit: John Craig.		Medium shot of Delphinium and Rumex acetosella.Credit: John Craig.
	Medium shot of Delphinium and Rumex acetosella.Credit: John Craig.		Farshot of Delphinium wildflowers.Credit: John Craig.
	Medium shot of Delphinium wildflowers.Credit: John Craig.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Delphinium

"Delphinium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Delphinium" is used about 9 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 (singular)	100%	9	117,287

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

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Expressions: Delphinium

Expressions using "delphinium": Delphinium Ajacis ♦ Delphinium Consolida ♦ Delphinium elatum ♦ Delphinium staphisagria ♦ Delphinium Staphysagria ♦ genus Delphinium. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Delphinium

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
delphinium	307
delphinium flower	22
blue delphinium	15
delphinium fountain magic	11
delphinium dr	11
delphinium blue butterfly	9
delphinium picture	7
delphinium belladonna	7
care delphinium	6
delphinium dwarf	5
delphinium plant	4
butterfly delphinium	4
delphinium design dr	4
delphinium ajacis	4
delphinium guinevere	3
delphinium seed	3
delphinium grandiflorum	3
delphinium photo	3
delphinium elatum	3
black knight delphinium	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Delphinium

Language		Translations for "delphinium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhabinë (buttercup). (various references)

Arabic		‏العائق (holdback, obstacle). (various references)

Bulgarian		делфиниум. (various references)

Dutch		ridderspooruil (delphinium cutworm, delphinium moth, golden plusia, golden plusia moth). (various references)

Finnish		rahayökkönen (delphinium cutworm, delphinium moth, golden plusia, golden plusia moth). (various references)

French		delphinium. (various references)

German		rittersporn (larkspur). (various references)

Greek		άνθοσ δελφίνι. (various references)

Hungarian		szarkaláb (crow's feet). (various references)

Italian		delfinio. (various references)

Manx		lus ny perkyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		elphiniumday

Portuguese		esporas-bravas. (various references)

Russian		дельфиниум. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta biljke (calceolaria, calendula, campion, candytuft, cuckooflower, cudweed, genista, sisal, sow-thistle). (various references)

Spanish		espuela de caballero (branching lackspur, European larkspur, forking lackspur, larkspur). (various references)

Swedish		riddarsporre (branching lackspur, forking lackspur, larkspur). (various references)

Turkish		hezaren çiçeği (larkspur). (various references)

Ukranian		живокіст. (various references)

Vietnamese		cây phi yến (larkspur). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Delphinium

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Chrysoptera moneta, Phytometra moneta, Plusia moneta, Polychrysia moneta. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Delphinium

Derivations
	Words beginning with "delphinium": delphiniums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Delphinium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Delaphena, delfinium, Delphyne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Delphinium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-i-l-m-n-p-u"
	-3 letters: hipline, implied, inhumed, midline, unpiled.
	-4 letters: dimple, helium, huipil, humped, impend, indium, inhume, limned, limped, limpid, lineup, lipide, lumped, lumpen, lupine, milden, milieu, pileum, plenum, plumed, unhelm, unpile, upheld.
	-5 letters: denim, duple, hemin, hilum, humid, ileum, ilium, imide, imine, imped, impel, indie, indue, limed, limen, lined, linum, lipid, lipin, lumen, lupin, medii, mined, muled, nihil, nudie, piled, pilei, pined, plied, plume, puled, umped, unhip, unled, upend.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-i-l-m-n-p-u"
	+1 letter: delphiniums.
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