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Snailflower

Definition: Snailflower

Snailflower

Noun

1. Perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus.

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


Synonyms: Snailflower

Synonyms: corkscrew flower (n), snail bean (n), snail flower (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Snailflower

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-w"

-2 letters: firewalls, lowlifers.

-3 letters: ailerons, airflows, alienors, farinose, farnesol, firewall, foresail, lowlifer, lowlifes, sallower, snowfall.

-4 letters: aileron, ainsell, airflow, alienor, aliners, anisole, enrolls, erasion, failles, fallers, fallows, fanwise, fawners, fawnier, fellows, fillers, finales, flawier, florals, florins, flowers, follies, foresaw, fowlers, infalls, infares, inflows, insofar, inwalls, lawines, loafers, loaners, lowlier, lowlife, nailers, nerolis, niellos, olefins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Snailflower


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

53 6E 61 69 6C 66 6C 6F 77 65 72

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 01101110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 0061 0069 006C 0066 006C 006F 0077 0065 0072

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

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

5380677578727881897184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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