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Definition: Gurnard |
GurnardNoun1. Bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Gurnard |
| English words defined with "gurnard": Butterfly fish ♦ Cuckoo fish ♦ Elleck ♦ flying gurnard ♦ Gaverick ♦ Hardhead ♦ Nowd ♦ Rochet, Rotchet ♦ Sea cock, sea robin, searobin, Swallowfish ♦ Trigla lucerna, tub gurnard, Tubfish ♦ Volador ♦ yellow gurnard. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gurnard": Nowd. (references) |
| "Gurnard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Gurnard" is used about 7 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) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gurnard": flying gurnard ♦ Plyling gurnard ♦ tub gurnard ♦ yellow gurnard. 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 |
agriculture gurnard | 43 |
company gurnard list | 22 |
gurnard importer | 15 |
buyer gurnard wholesale | 13 |
gurnard seller | 13 |
flying gurnard | 4 |
gurnard | 3 |
gurnard uss | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gurnard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gushëkuq deti. (various references) | |
Arabic | الغرنار سمك شائك الرأس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тригла (gurnet). (various references) | |
Czech | ryba (cow-fish, crawfish, fish, garfish, goldfish, grouper, hake, loach, saury, shad). (various references) | |
Danish | grå knurhane (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Dutch | grauwe poon (grey gurnard), kleine knorhaan (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Finnish | kyhmykurnusimppu (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
French | grondin. (various references) | |
German | Grauer Knurrhahn (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Greek | καπόνι (capon, davit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | morgóhal (gurnet). (various references) | |
Italian | gallinella (cuckoo gurnard, grey gurnard, lineated gurnard, piper, piper gurnard, red gurnard, rock gurnard, soldier, streaked gurnard), cappone (capon), capone gorno (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Manx | crodane (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urnardgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cabra morena (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Russian | морской петух (gurnet). (various references) | |
Spanish | perlón (grey gurnard), escarcho (roach), cuco de altura (grey gurnard), cuco americano (grey gurnard), crego (grey gurnard), clérigo (churchman, clergyman, cleric, deacon, preacher, priest, reverend), borracho (addicted to wine, alcoholic, boiled, boozer, boozy, capernoited, crapulent, dram-drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fuddled, groggily, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, lushed, malty, plastered, rummy, sloshed, souse, stewed, stoned, tight, well oiled). (various references) | |
Swedish | knot (grouse, grumble), knorrhane (grey gurnard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | морський півень. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eutrigla gurnardus, Trigla gurnardus, Trigla Linnaeus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gurnard": gurnards. (additional references) | |
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"Gurnard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: garryarde, gunard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-n-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: durra, gnarr, grand, guard. | |
-3 letters: dang, darn, drag, drug, dung, dura, durn, durr, gaud, gaun, gaur, gnar, grad, gran, guan, guar, nard, nurd, rand, rang, ruga, rung. | |
-4 letters: and, dag, dug, dun, gad, gan, gar, gnu, gun, nag, rad, rag, ran, rug, run, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, an, ar, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: grandeur, gurnards. | |
+2 letters: grandeurs, undergrad. | |
+3 letters: fairground, krugerrand, redarguing, undergrads. | |
+4 letters: fairgrounds, groundwater, krugerrands, undercharge, underrating, unirrigated, unrewarding. | |
+5 letters: backgrounder, groundwaters, quadrangular, surfboarding, transfigured, undercharged, undercharges, undergarment, unprogrammed. | |
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