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Sauropod

Definition: Sauropod

Sauropod

Noun

1. Very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal.

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



Specialty Definitions: Sauropod

DomainDefinitions

Biology & Biotechnology

Meat-eating dinosaur. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Sauropod

Synonym: sauropod dinosaur (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sauropod

English words defined with "sauropod": herbivoresauropod dinosaur, Sauropoda, suborder Sauropoda. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Sauropod

"Sauropod" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sauropod" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sauropod

Expression using "sauropod": sauropod dinosaur. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sauropod

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sauropod

12
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Derivations: Sauropod

Derivations

Words beginning with "sauropod": sauropods. (additional references)

Words ending with "sauropod": prosauropod. (additional references)

Words containing "sauropod": prosauropods. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sauropod

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-o-o-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: apodous, parodos, uropods.

-2 letters: douras, droops, odours, parous, porous, purdas, sapour, upsoar, uropod.

-3 letters: apods, doors, dopas, dorps, dorsa, doura, droop, drops, duras, duros, odors, odour, ordos, pards, poods, pours, praos, praus, proas, prods, proso, proud, purda, roads, roods, roups, sapor, sarod, sopor, spado, spoor, sudor, supra, updos.

-4 letters: ados, apod, daps, door, dopa, dorp, dors, dour, drop, duos, dups, dura, duro, oars, odor, oops, opus, orad, ordo, osar, ouds, ours, pads, pard, pars, pods, pood, poor, pour, prao, prau, proa, prod, pros, puds, purs, rads, raps, rasp, road, rods, rood, roup, sard, soap, soar, soda, sora, sord, soup, sour, spar, spud, spur, sura, surd, udos, upas, updo, urds, ursa.

-5 letters: ado, ads, ars, asp, dap, dor, dos, duo, dup, oar, ods, ops, ora, ors, oud, our, pad, par, pas, pod, pro, pud, pur, pus, rad, rap, ras, rod, sad, sap, sau, sod, sop, sou, spa, sup, udo, upo, ups, urd.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-o-o-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: sauropods.

 

+2 letters: pompadours.

 

+3 letters: avoirdupois, polyandrous, prosauropod.

 

+4 letters: proctodaeums, prosauropods, pseudorandom.

 

+5 letters: avoirdupoises.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sauropod


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

53 61 75 72 6F 70 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)

...    .-    ..-    .-.    ---    .--.    ---    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01110101 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#117 &#114 &#111 &#112 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0075 0072 006F 0070 006F 0064

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

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

5367878481828170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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