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Definition: Regrow |
RegrowVerb1. Grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption; "parts of the trunk of this tree can regrow"; "some invertebrates can regrow limbs or their tail after they lost it due to an injury". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Regrow |
| English words defined with "regrow": Cordyline ♦ genus Cordyline. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In the early 1980s, experiments in the spinal cords of animals showed that CNS neurons can regrow under certain conditions. (references) | |
Nerve cells that survive the injury often must regrow axons, despite tissue changes such as cavity formation that obstruct growth. (references) | ||
Scientists have long known that nerve cells outside the brain and spinal cord can regenerate, but they believed that nerve cells in the CNS of adults could not regrow. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Regrow" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Regrow" is used about 14 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 71.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
regrow hair | 60 |
eyebrow regrow | 9 |
regrow tooth | 5 |
regrow | 5 |
back hair regrow | 3 |
hair regrow uk | 2 |
foreskin regrow | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "regrow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | wieder wachsen (to regrow). (various references) | ||||
Manx | aa-aase (second growth). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | egrowray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "regrow": regrowing, regrown, regrows, regrowth, regrowths. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grower. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: roger, rower. | |
-2 letters: ergo, goer, gore, grew, grow, ogre, wore. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, err, gor, ore, owe, reg, roe, row, woe, wog. | |
-4 letters: er, go, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: growers, growler, regrown, regrows, wronger. | |
+2 letters: growlers, growlier, overgrew, overgrow, regrowth, wrongers. | |
+3 letters: browridge, grewsomer, growthier, overgrown, overgrows, regrowing, regrowths, rewording, reworking, rewrought, warmonger, wrongdoer. | |
+4 letters: beworrying, bridgework, browridges, overgrowth, recrowning, repowering, songwriter, wageworker, warmongers, winegrower, wordmonger, wrongdoers. | |
+5 letters: bridgeworks, forewarning, forswearing, ghostwriter, glassworker, groundwater, intergrowth, overdrawing, overgrowing, overgrowths, overwarming, overwearing, overworking, overwriting, overwrought, reflowering, songwriters, supergrowth, undergrowth, wageworkers, whoremonger, winegrowers, wordmongers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 67 72 6F 77 |
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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)01010010 01100101 01100111 01110010 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e g r o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0067 0072 006F 0077 |
| 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)527173848189 |
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