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Leafroller

Definition: Leafroller

Leafroller

Noun

1. Moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk.

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



Synonym: Leafroller

Synonym: leaf roller (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leafroller

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

leafroller

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Leafroller

Language Translations for "leafroller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

geel rijstmotje (grass leaf roller, leaffolder, paddy leaf roller, rice leafroller). (various references)

   

French

  

pyrale des herbes (grass leaf roller, leaffolder, paddy leaf roller, rice leafroller). (various references)

   

German

  

Zuensler (grass leaf roller, leaffolder, paddy leaf roller, rice leafroller). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eafrollerlay

   

Swedish

  

gräsrullmott (grass leaf roller, leaffolder, paddy leaf roller, rice leafroller). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Leafroller

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-l-l-o-r-r"

-4 letters: allele, areole, faller, fearer, feller, felloe, ferrel, florae, floral, loafer, loller, loreal, realer, refall, refell, reroll, rolfer, roller.

-5 letters: afore, allee, farer, farle, fella, feral, flare, fleer, flora, freer, frere, frore, laree, loral, refel, refer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Leafroller


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

4C 65 61 66 72 6F 6C 6C 65 72

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)

01001100 01100101 01100001 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#102 &#114 &#111 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 0066 0072 006F 006C 006C 0065 0072

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

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

46716772848178787184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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