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Definition: Protoavis |
ProtoavisNoun1. Most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having birdlike jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "protoavis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
Expression using "protoavis": genus Protoavis. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
protoavis | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-o-o-p-r-s-t-v" | |
-2 letters: airpost, paviors, proviso, provost, travois, viators. | |
-3 letters: aorist, arioso, aristo, parvis, parvos, pastor, patios, patois, pavior, pivots, pooris, prosit, rapist, ratios, ripost, satori, savior, tapirs, tripos, troops, vapors, viator. | |
-4 letters: airts, aport, arvos, astir, atrip, aviso, iotas, ostia, pairs, paris, parts, parvo, patio, pavis, pitas, pivot, poori, ports, posit, praos, prats, proas, proso. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-o-o-p-r-s-t-v" | |
+3 letters: cooperatives, evaporations, improvisator, provocations, provocatives. | |
+4 letters: corporativism, flavoproteins, improvisation, improvisatore, improvisatori, improvisators, improvisatory, nonabsorptive, postoperative, vaporizations, velociraptors. | |
+5 letters: contrapositive, corporativisms, improvisations, improvisatores, superovulation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 6F 74 6F 61 76 69 73 |
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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).--. .-. --- - --- .- ...- .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101111 01100001 01110110 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r o t o a v i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 006F 0074 006F 0061 0076 0069 0073 |
| 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)508481868167887585 |
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