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Planarian

Definition: Planarian

Planarian

Noun

1. 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.
 


Synonym: Planarian

Synonym: planaria (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Planarian

DomainTitle

Books

  • Histogenesis and Morphogenesis in Planarian Regeneration (Monographs in Developmental Biology: Vol 11) (reference)

  • Planarian regeneration (reference)

  • The morphology, karyology and taxonomy of a new freshwater planarian of the genus Phagocata from California (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Planarian

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Planarian

"Planarian" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Planarian" is used about 3 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
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Planarian

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

planarian

26

planarian taxonomy

5

picture planarian

3

land planarian

3

planarian worm

2

planaria planarian

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Planarian

Derivations

Words beginning with "planarian": planarians. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Planarian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Linaria, Llanelian, Llanwrin, Lunaria, Panafrican, Panagia, Panavia, Panayia, Panerai, Panjaitan, phanariot, plenaries, Plenario. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Planarian"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "planarian" (pronounced plune"rēun)
9p l u n e" r ē u ndisciplinarian.
7-u n e" r ē u ncentenarian, octogenarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, veterinarian.
5-e" r ē u nagrarian, authoritarian, barbarian, carrion, Clarion, contrarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, ovarian, parliamentarian, proletarian, sectarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian.
4-r ē u ncenturion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian.
3-ē u naccordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Planarian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-n-n-p-r"

-1 letter: planaria.

-3 letters: alanin, narial, parian, pinnal, pirana, planar.

-4 letters: annal, apian, laari, lanai, lapin, liana, naira, pilar, pinna, plain.

-5 letters: airn, alan, alar, anal, anil, anna, aria, aril, lain, lair, lari, liar, linn, lipa, lira, naan, nail, nana, nipa, pail, pain, pair, para, pial, pian, pina, pirn, plan, raia, rail, rain, rani, rial.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-n-n-p-r"
 

+1 letter: planarians.

 

+3 letters: rataplanning.

 

+4 letters: parainfluenza, supranational.

 

+5 letters: parainfluenzas, pararosaniline.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Planarian


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

50 6C 61 6E 61 72 69 61 6E

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 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006C 0061 006E 0061 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)

507867806784756780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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