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Desert Plant

Definition: Desert Plant

Desert Plant

Noun

1. Plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte.

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


Synonyms: Desert Plant

Synonyms: xerophile (n), xerophilous plant (n), xerophyte (n), xerophytic plant (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Desert Plant

English words defined with "desert plant": Abronia villosa, Anastatica hierochunticaCalifornia bluebelldesert sand verbena, desert sunflowerGerea canescensmescalPhacelia minor, Phacelia whitlaviaresurrection plant, rose of Jerichowhitlavia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "desert plant": Knie, Knierohr, KniestückRohrkrümmerzerophyte. (references)

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Photo Album: Desert Plant

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Southern desert plant, soapweed yucca, in foreground of rocky outcrop on the La Cueva mountain in Las Cruces Field Office, New Mexico.Credit: Unknown.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Desert Plant

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

  desert plant

232

  desert plant rose

59

  desert plant sahara

17

  adaptation desert plant

7

  edible desert plant

3

  biome desert plant

3

  carry desert plant rose who

2
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Anagrams: Desert Plant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-p-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: splattered, trapnested.

-2 letters: attenders, endplates, patterned, plastered, pretasted, replanted, saltpeter, spattered, sprattled.

-3 letters: adeptest, alertest, antlered, attender, deplanes, desalter, endplate, entreats, eternals, nattered, nettlers, palettes, paltered, parented, partlets, patented, pattered, patterns, peartest, pederast, pedestal, petrales, planters, platters, pleaders, pleaters, prattled, prattles, predates, prelates, pretaste, pretends, ratteens, rattened, relapsed, repanels, repasted, replants, replated, replates.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-p-r-s-t-t"
 

+5 letters: departmentalizes, postpresidential.

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Alternative Orthography: Desert Plant


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

44 65 73 65 72 74      50 6C 61 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000100 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110100 00100000 01010000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#115 &#101 &#114 &#116 &#32 &#80 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0073 0065 0072 0074      0050 006C 0061 006E 0074

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

38718571848625078678086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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