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Seminiferous

Definition: Seminiferous

Seminiferous

Adjective

1. Bearing or producing seed or semen; "seminiferous tubules".

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

Etymology: Seminiferous \Sem`i*nif"er*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression semen, semenis, seed -ferous.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Seminiferous

English words defined with "seminiferous": rete testisSemeniferous, seminiferous tubule, Sertoli cell, Sertoli's cell, Spermatophorous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "seminiferous": Androgen-Binding ProteinBlood-Testis BarrierInhibin, interstitial cellSeminiferous Epithelium, Seminiferous Tubules, Sertoli, Sertoli Cells. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Seminiferous

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Establishment of Spermatogenesis in the Seminiferous Epithelium of the Pubertal Golden Hamster: (Mesocricetus Auratus) (Advances in Anatomy, embr (reference)

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Expressions: Seminiferous

Expressions using "seminiferous": Seminiferous Epithelium seminiferous tubule Seminiferous Tubules. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seminiferous

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
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  seminiferous tubules

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Modern Translations: Seminiferous

Language Translations for "seminiferous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏بزري حامل للبزور. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

семеносен, семенен (seminal, spermatic). (various references)

   

French

  

séminifère. (various references)

   

German

  

Zwischenzelle (interstitial cell, stimulating hormone, the hormone produced in the cells lying in the interstices between the seminiferous tubules of the testis). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

magtermõ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tubulo seminifero (seminiferous tubule). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eminiferoussay

   

Portuguese

  

seminífero. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

семявыносящий, семяносный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji ima seme. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

seminífero. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

насінн"носний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chứa hạt giống chứa tinh; sinh tinh; dẫn tinh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Seminiferous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-u"

-2 letters: reemission.

-3 letters: emersions, feminises, fieriness, misinfers, missioner, reinfuses, remission, reunifies, sensorium.

-4 letters: emersion, emission, ensiform, enuresis, feminise, fermions, fineries, firmness, infusers, miriness, miseries, misfires, misinfer, monsieur, neuroses, neurosis, ossifier, reinfuse, resinous, rifeness, riminess, simonies, unifiers, uniforms.

-5 letters: enserfs, ensures, eonisms, eosines, ermines, feminie, fermion, finesse, finises, firemen, fission, fissure, foremen, frenums, frisees, frisson, fusions.

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Alternative Orthography: Seminiferous


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

53 65 6D 69 6E 69 66 65 72 6F 75 73

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)

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

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

01010011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01100110 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006D 0069 006E 0069 0066 0065 0072 006F 0075 0073

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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