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Frostweed

Definition: Frostweed

Frostweed

Noun

1. Perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts.

2. Tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States.

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


Synonym: Frostweed

Synonym: frostwort (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Frostweed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-o-r-s-t-w"

-1 letter: deforest, forested, fostered, frowsted.

-2 letters: defrost, frosted, oersted, resowed, strewed, strowed, teredos, towered, twofers, worsted, wrested.

-3 letters: defers, defter, desert, deters, doters, dowers, dowser, drowse, erodes, fester, fetors, fewest, forest, fortes, foster, freest, frowst, redoes, rested, reweds, rewets, softer, sorted, stereo, stewed, stored, stowed, strode, teredo, towers, trowed, tweeds, twofer, wester, worset.

-4 letters: deers.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-o-r-s-t-w"
 

+5 letters: thenceforwards.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Frostweed


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

46 72 6F 73 74 77 65 65 64

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)

01000110 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 01110111 01100101 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 006F 0073 0074 0077 0065 0065 0064

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

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

408481858689717170

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INDEX

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


  

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