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Definition: Desert Tortoise |
Desert TortoiseNoun1. Burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Desert TortoiseSynonym: Gopherus agassizii (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Desert Tortoise |
| English words defined with "desert tortoise": Texas tortoise. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
desert tortoise | 136 |
california desert tortoise | 13 |
desert tortoise picture | 11 |
care desert tortoise | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ammomanes deserti, Balanites aegyptiaca, Testudinata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-t" | |
-4 letters: distorters. | |
-5 letters: deserters, destriers, detesters, distorter, reredoses, resetters, roistered, titterers, torridest, tortoises, totterers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 73 65 72 74 54 6F 72 74 6F 69 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101111 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e s e r t   T o r t o i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0073 0065 0072 0074 0054 006F 0072 0074 006F 0069 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38718571848625481848681758571 |
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