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Prickleback

Definition: Prickleback

Prickleback

Noun

1. Small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines.

2. Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research.

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


Synonym: Prickleback

Synonym: stickleback (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Prickleback

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-i-k-k-l-p-r"

-2 letters: placekick.

-3 letters: breccial, kickable, parklike.

-4 letters: acerbic, balkier, blacker, breccia, brickle, cackler, caliber, calibre, caliper, caprice, clacker, clicker, crackle, prickle, replica.

-5 letters: backer, bailer, balker, bicker, bilker, bipack, cackle, cakier, calker, capric, carcel, caribe, carpel, celiac, cicale, circle, cleric, eclair, epical, icecap, ipecac, kicker, lacier, lacker, lakier, librae, licker, packer, palier, parcel, picker, pickle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Prickleback


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

50 72 69 63 6B 6C 65 62 61 63 6B

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 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01100101 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0069 0063 006B 006C 0065 0062 0061 0063 006B

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

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

5084756977787168676977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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