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Scorpion Fly

Definition: Scorpion Fly

Scorpion Fly

Noun

1. Any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae; males have a tail like that of a scorpion except it is not venomous.

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

Ancestral Language Translations: Scorpion Fly

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Chrysozona pluvialis, Haematopota pluvialis, Phyllotreta nemorum, Reduvius personatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Scorpion Fly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-y"

-3 letters: opsonify, orcinols, scorpion, snoopily, spoonily.

-4 letters: cornily, crisply, florins, frolics, opsonic, orcinol, plosion, pocosin, porcino, prosily, pyloric, rosinol, scorify.

-5 letters: colins, coloni, colons, colony, colors, consol, cosily, crispy, croons, floors, floosy, florin, foison, folios, frolic, lyrics, nicols, nosily, orcins, orison, orlops, orpins, poison, policy, polios, pooris, poorly, pornos, prions, prison, proofs, pylons, pylori, ropily, rosily, rosiny, scroop, snoopy, solion, spinor, spoofy, spoony.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scorpion Fly


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

53 63 6F 72 70 69 6F 6E      46 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010011 01100011 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000110 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#111 &#114 &#112 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#70 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 006F 0072 0070 0069 006F 006E      0046 006C 0079

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

53698184827581802407891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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