Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Holothurian

Definition: Holothurian

Holothurian

Noun

1. Echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders: sea cucumbers.

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

Date "holothurian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Synonym: Holothurian

Synonym: sea cucumber (n). (additional references)

Top     

Crosswords: Holothurian

English words defined with "holothurian": FierasferHolothureSea girkin, Sea orange, Sea pudding. (references)

Top     

Derivations: Holothurian

Derivations

Words beginning with "holothurian": holothurians. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Holothurian"

Words rhyming with "holothurian" (pronounced 'Hol`o*thu"ri*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Ajouan, Ajowan, ajwain, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: Holothurian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-h-i-l-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-3 letters: horntail, lothario.

-4 letters: althorn, hornito, inthral, oration, ortolan, outlain, rainout, urolith.

-5 letters: aroint, author, harlot, honour, hoorah, inhaul, latino, liroth, lotion, nutria, oolith, oorali, outran, ration, ratlin, ratoon, rhinal, rialto, ritual, tailor, talion, tholoi, thoria, thoron, thulia, torula, trinal, unhair, unroot, urinal.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-h-i-l-n-o-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: holothurians.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Holothurian


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

48 6F 6C 6F 74 68 75 72 69 61 6E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    ---    .-..    ---    -    ....    ..-    .-.    ..    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001000 01101111 01101100 01101111 01110100 01101000 01110101 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#116 &#104 &#117 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006C 006F 0074 0068 0075 0072 0069 0061 006E

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

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

4281788186748784756780

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.