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Possumwood

Definition: Possumwood

Possumwood

Noun

1. Medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe.

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


Synonyms: Possumwood

Synonyms: American persimmon (n), Diospyros virginiana (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Possumwood

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

Danish

  

hura (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

possentrie (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree). (various references)

   

French

  

possentrie, sablier, assacu. (various references)

   

German

  

Possentrie (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree), Sandbuechsenbaum (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree), Sandbox (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree), Hura (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree), Assacu (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sablier bianca (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree), assacu (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ossumwoodpay

   

Portuguese

  

assacú (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree), árvore-do-diabo (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sanddoseträd (hura, rakuda, sandbox tree). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Possumwood

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Hura crepitans. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Possumwood

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-m-o-o-o-p-s-s-u-w"

-3 letters: opossum.

-4 letters: duomos, osmous, possum, sodoms, swoops.

-5 letters: dooms, doums, dumps, duomo, modus, moods, mosso, poods, sodom, soups, spuds, sumos, sumps, swoop, swops, updos, woods, woops.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Possumwood


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

50 6F 73 73 75 6D 77 6F 6F 64

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 01101111 01110011 01110011 01110101 01101101 01110111 01101111 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#115 &#115 &#117 &#109 &#119 &#111 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0073 0073 0075 006D 0077 006F 006F 0064

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

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

50818585877989818170

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INDEX

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


  

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