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Self-heal

Definition: Self-heal

Self-heal

Noun

1. Decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North America.

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

Date "self-heal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Synonym: Self-heal

Synonym: heal all (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: heal-all (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), sicle wort.

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Modern Translations: Self-heal

Language Translations for "self-heal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

усойче. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

自已愈合. (various references)

   

Danish

  

almindelig brunelle (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sleedoornvrucht, gewone brunel (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

niittyhumala (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

French

  

brunelle vulgaire. (various references)

   

German

  

Schlehe (blackthorn, sloe), Dornschlehe, Brunelle (heal-all, sicle wort), Braunelle (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βουτυρόχορτον το κοινόν (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Italian

  

consolida minore (heal-all, sicle wort), brunella (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

각자 치 하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

lus y chione cast. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-healsay

   

Russian 

  

черноголовка обыкновенная. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hierba de las heridas (heal-all, sicle wort), brunela vulgar (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brunört (heal-all, sicle wort). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cây thuốc bách bệnh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Self-heal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Prunella vulgaris. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Self-heal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: selfheal.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-l-l-s"

-1 letter: fellahs.

-2 letters: allees, fellah, fellas.

-3 letters: alefs, allee, easel, falls, false, fease, feels, fella, fells, flash, fleas, flees, flesh, hales, halls, heals, heels, hells, leafs, lease, leash, selah, selle, shale, shall, sheaf, sheal, shelf, shell.

-4 letters: alee, alef, ales, alls, ease, eels, ells, else, fall, fash, feal, feel, fees, fehs, fell, flea, flee, haes.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-h-l-l-s"
 

+1 letter: selfheals.

 

+3 letters: mantelshelf.

 

+4 letters: gesellschaft.

 

+5 letters: gesellschafts, healthfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Self-heal


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

53 65 6C 66 2D 68 65 61 6C

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

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

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01101000 01100101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0068 0065 0061 006C

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

537178721574716778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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