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Pearlfish

Definition: Pearlfish

Pearlfish

Noun

1. Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds.

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

 

Modern Translations: Pearlfish

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

Dutch

  

Constance waaiervis (annual killifish). (various references)

   

French

  

cynolebias de Constance. (various references)

   

German

  

Faecherkaerpfling (annual killifish, ginger pearlfish, minute pearlfish, opalescent pearlfish, splendid pearlfish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυπρινόδους της Κωνσταντίας (annual killifish). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cynolebias splendens (annual killifish, splendid pearlfish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earlfishpay

   

Portuguese

  

peixe pérola de Constança (annual killifish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pearlfish

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cynolebias constanciae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Pearlfish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-i-l-p-r-s"

-1 letter: earlship, flashier, harelips, parflesh, plashier.

-2 letters: felspar, flasher, hailers, harelip, harpies, hirples, pilfers, plasher, shalier, sharpie, spheral.

-3 letters: afresh, alephs, ariels, ashier, ashler, aspire, elfish, espial, falser, falsie, farles, ferial, ferias, filers, fisher, flairs, flares, fliers, frails, fraise, hailer, halers, hirple, hirsel, hirsle, lapser, lasher, lifers, lipase, lisper, palier, palish, paries, parish, parles.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-i-l-p-r-s"
 

+4 letters: filmographies, flexographies.

 

+5 letters: fluorographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pearlfish


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

50 65 61 72 6C 66 69 73 68

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)

01010000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#108 &#102 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0061 0072 006C 0066 0069 0073 0068

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

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

507167847872758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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