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Half-hardy

Definition: Half-hardy

Half-hardy

Adjective

1. (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals".

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

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Crosswords: Half-hardy

English words defined with "half-hardy": Bessera eleganscoral dropsJacqueminot. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Half-hardy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Half-hardy

"Half-hardy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Half-hardy" is used about 12 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Half-hardy

Language Translations for "half-hardy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

alf-hardyhay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

требующее прикрытия на зиму (half-hardy plant), грунтовое растение (half-hardy plant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Half-hardy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-h-h-l-r-y"

-2 letters: halyard.

-3 letters: hardly.

-4 letters: alary, farad, hadal, hardy, hydra, lahar, lardy, lyard, rayah.

-5 letters: afar, alar, alfa, aryl, ayah, dahl, dhal, dray, fard, farl, flay, fray, haaf, haar, haha, half, hard, harl, hyla, lady, lard, raya, yald, yard.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-f-h-h-l-r-y"
 

+4 letters: halfheartedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Half-hardy


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

48 61 6C 66 2D 68 61 72 64 79

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

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

01001000 01100001 01101100 01100110 00101101 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#104 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 0066 002D 0068 0061 0072 0064 0079

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

42677872157467847091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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