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Definition: Planaria |
PlanariaNoun1. Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "planaria" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Planaria \Pla*na"ri*a\, noun; plural Latin Planari[ae], English -rias. [New Latin expression. See Planary.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: PlanariaSynonym: planarian (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Planaria |
| English words defined with "planaria": Planariae ♦ -rias. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "planaria": Planarians. (references) |
| "Planaria" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Planaria" is used about 10 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) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "planaria": planaria-like. | |
| 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 |
planaria | 98 |
planaria taxonomy | 12 |
picture planaria | 7 |
brown planaria | 5 |
brown planaria taxonomy | 5 |
information planaria | 4 |
planaria regeneration | 3 |
planaria worm | 2 |
planaria planarian | 2 |
nematode planaria | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "planaria": planarian, planarians, planarias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "planaria" (pronounced 'Pla*na"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Aporia, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Curia, Dataria, Dysphoria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, hematuria, Homoeomeria, hysteria, Ichthyosauria, Krameria, Laminaria, Lemuria, Lepidosauria, Lucernaria, malaria, Memoria, Mercenaria, Mesosauria. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-n-p-r" | |
-2 letters: narial, parian, pirana, planar. | |
-3 letters: apian, laari, lanai, lapin, liana, naira, pilar, plain. | |
-4 letters: airn, alan, alar, anal, anil, aria, aril, lain, lair, lari, liar, lipa, lira, nail, nipa, pail, pain, pair, para, pial, pian, pina, pirn, plan, raia, rail, rain, rani, rial. | |
-5 letters: aal, ail, ain, air, ala, alp, ana, ani, lap, lar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: planarian, planarias. | |
+2 letters: lapidarian, paranoidal, planarians, planetaria. | |
+3 letters: malapropian, parasailing. | |
+4 letters: antiparallel, apparitional, aspirational, paralyzation, paranoically, parasailings, prelapsarian, pyromaniacal, rataplanning. | |
+5 letters: anaphorically, panoramically, parainfluenza, paralyzations, paranormality, paraphernalia, parliamentary, postlapsarian, supranational, suprarational. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6C 61 6E 61 72 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-.. .- -. .- .-. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P l a n a r i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006C 0061 006E 0061 0072 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5078678067847567 |
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