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Definition: Fimbria |
FimbriaNoun1. Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fimbria" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Fimbria \Fim"bri*a\, noun; plural Fimbri[ae]. [Latin expression, fringe. See Fringle.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Fimbria |
| English words defined with "fimbria": Beshow ♦ Fimbriae. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 83. The "Black Cod", Black "Candle-Fish," or Beshow. Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas), Gill. The "Atka Mackerel" or Yellow-Fish. Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Pallas), Gill.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "fimbria": Anoplopoma fimbria. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
fimbria | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "fimbria"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | frange, fimbria. (various references) | ||||
German | Fimbrie, Fimbria, Pilus (hair, hairs, pili, pilus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | imbriafay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fimbria": fimbriae, fimbrial, fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbriation, fimbriations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fimbria" (pronounced 'Fim"bri*a'): Cambria. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-i-m-r" | |
-2 letters: iambi, mbira. | |
-3 letters: abri, amir, barf, barm, bima, brim, fair, farm, fiar, firm, iamb, mair, miri, rami. | |
-4 letters: aim, air, ami, arb, arf, arm, bam, bar, bra, far, fib, fir, mar, mib, mir, ram, ria, rib, rif, rim. | |
-5 letters: ab, ai, am, ar, ba, bi, fa, if, ma, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-i-m-r" | |
+1 letter: fimbriae, fimbrial. | |
+2 letters: fimbriate. | |
+3 letters: fimbriated. | |
+4 letters: fimbriation, formability. | |
+5 letters: fimbriations, myofibrillar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6D 62 72 69 61 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. -- -... .-. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101101 01100010 01110010 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i m b r i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006D 0062 0072 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40757968847567 |
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