Senega

Definitions: Senega

Senega

Noun

1. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.

2. Perennial bushy herb of Central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot.

Date "senega" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Synonym: Senega

Synonym: Polygala alba (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: milkwort (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

Crosswords: Senega

English words defined with "senega": Polygala senega ♦ Seneca root, Seneca snakeroot, senega root, senega snakeroot, Senegin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Senega" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (senega).

"Senega" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Senega" is used about 3 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Expressions using "senega": polygala Senega ♦ senega root ♦ senega snakeroot. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "senega"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mjet kundër kolle. (various references)

Bulgarian		сенега, телчарка. (various references)

Danish		senega maelkeurt (milkwort, snakeroot), senega. (various references)

Dutch		senega, vleugeltjesbloem (milkwort, snakeroot). (various references)

Finnish		seneganjuuri (milkwort, snakeroot), senega (milkwort, snakeroot). (various references)

French		polygale vulgaire, polygala de Virginie, laitier commun, herbe au lait. (various references)

German		Senega, Kreuzblume (finial, milkwort, snakeroot). (various references)

Greek		πολύγαλα �'ιργινίας, πολύγαλον το βιργίνιον (milkwort, snakeroot). (various references)

Hungarian		virginiai pacsirtafû. (various references)

Italian		poligala vulgaris (milkwort, snakeroot), poligala virginiana. (various references)

Pig Latin		enegasay

Portuguese		polígala-da-virgínia. (various references)

Russian		сенега. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		senega koren. (various references)

Spanish		poligalia de Virginia. (various references)

Swedish		senegarot (milkwort, snakeroot), senega. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Polygala senega. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "senega": senegas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: agenes.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-s"
	-1 letter: agene, genes.
	-2 letters: agee, ages, anes, ease, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gees, gene, gens, nags, sage, sane, sang, seen, sene, snag.
	-3 letters: age, ane, eng, ens, gae, gan, gas, gee, gen, nae, nag, nee, sae, sag, sea, see, seg, sen.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, an, as, en, es, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-s"
	+1 letter: avenges, encages, engages, enrages, genevas, maneges, menages, negates, senegas.
	+2 letters: agedness, agencies, ageneses, agenesia, agenesis, agenizes, anergies, assignee, avengers, deranges, endgames, engagers, engraves, enlarges, ensilage, envisage, estrange, eugenias, euglenas, evangels, fenagles, gameness, gamesmen, gasogene, gasolene, generals, gesneria, gleaners, grandees, grantees, greatens, grenades, lineages, melanges, negaters, pangenes, peonages, reagents, sageness, sangaree, scavenge, sergeant, shagreen, tentages, thenages, ventages, whangees.
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