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Definition: Ruga |
RugaNoun1. (anatomy) a fold or wrinkle or crease; "rugae of the stomach". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ruga" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Ruga \Ru"ga\, noun; plural Rug[ae]. [Latin expression]. (references) |
Crosswords: Ruga |
| English words defined with "ruga": Rugae. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ruga": rugose. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ruga" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (furrow, line, pucker, wrinkle), Latin (a wrinkle), Portuguese (chill mark, cockle, crease, crinkle, crumple, flow line, fold, furrow, plica, pucker, ripple, wrinkle), Romanian (ask, beg, court, desire, entreat, implore, invite, petition, pray, request), Scottish (rough cloth). |
| 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 |
ruga | 5 |
restaurant ruga | 4 |
monika ruga | 3 |
coma ruga | 3 |
ruga ruga | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ruga"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | پیچ وخم(زیست شناسی), چین وچروک (Cockle), تاب خوردگی . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ugaray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ruga": rugae, rugal, rugate. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ruga": sastruga, sevruga, zastruga. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ruga": corrugate, corrugated, corrugates, corrugating, corrugation, corrugations, frugal, frugalities, frugality, frugally, infrugal, sevrugas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ruga" (pronounced 'Ru"ga'): Abanga, Alga, Anhinga, Auriga, Badiaga, Beccabunga, Bega, Beluga, Biga, Caatinga, Cotinga, Durga, Fuga, massasauga, Moringa, Munga, Omega, Onagga, Plaga, Quadriga, Quagga, saiga, Siaga, toga, Tringa, Yoga, Ziega. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gaur, guar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r-u" | |
-1 letter: gar, rag, rug. | |
-2 letters: ag, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r-u" | |
+1 letter: argue, argus, auger, augur, gaurs, guard, guars, gular, rugae, rugal, sugar. | |
+2 letters: aerugo, argued, arguer, argues, argufy, augers, augurs, augury, cougar, curagh, frugal, gauger, giaour, gradus, granum, guards, guitar, jaguar, kurgan, langur, mauger, maugre, muggar, ourang, ragout, rugate, rugola, rugosa, sauger, sugars, sugary, tragus, vaguer, vulgar. | |
+3 letters: aerugos, aground, angular, arguers, arguing, arguses, arugola, arugula, auberge, augural, augured, augurer, bearhug, bugbear, burgage, burghal, burglar, cougars, courage, curaghs, curragh, desugar, draught, dustrag, earplug, figural, fraught, garigue, gaucher, gaudery, gaudier, gauffer, gaugers, gaunter, gauntry, gauzier, giaours, glamour, gourami, gradual, grampus, granule, graupel, gravure, grayout, guarani, guarded, guarder, guisard, guitars, gurnard, hamburg, jaguars, jugular, kurgans, languor, langurs, laugher, leaguer, ligular, muggars, organum, ourangs, outbrag, outdrag, outrage, outrang, pagurid, piragua, plaguer, pugaree, pugmark, ragouts, reargue, refugia, regauge, regular, rugolas, rugosas, rummage, saguaro, saugers, sevruga, sugared, tegular, umbrage, uneager, unguard, ungular, upgrade, vulgars. | |
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