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Definition: Stapelia |
StapeliaNoun1. Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large evil-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Stapelia \Sta*pe"li*a\, noun. [New Latin expression. So named after John Bod[ae]us Stapel, physician of Amsterdam.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: StapeliaSynonyms: carrion flower (n), starfish flower (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stapelia |
| English words defined with "stapelia": African swallowwort ♦ carrion flower ♦ Stapelias asterias, starfish flower. (references) |
| "Stapelia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stapelia" 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 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stapelia": genus Stapelia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stapelia | 15 |
gigantea stapelia | 6 |
grandiflora stapelia | 3 |
divaricata stapelia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stapelia": stapelias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stapelia" (pronounced 'Sta*pe"li*a'): Abdominalia, Acholia, Alalia, Antlia, Aurelia, Bacchanalia, Cerealia, Coelia, Dahlia, Generalia, Grindelia, Linguatulida, lobelia, Lupercalia, magnolia, Mammalia, Marginalia, melancholia, Nebalia, Neuroglia, Paraphernalia, Penetralia, Physalia, Prosocoelia, Pseudocoelia, Quinquennalia, replica, Rosalia, Saturnalia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aplites, palates, paliest, platies, spatial, talipes. | |
-2 letters: alates, aplite, espial, lipase, palais, palate, palest, palets, pastel, pastie, pastil, petals, petsai, pietas, plaits, plates, pleats, salpae, saltie, septal, spital, staple, stelai, stipel, tepals. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alate, alias, alist, ataps, atlas, islet, istle, lapis, lapse, leaps, leapt, least, lepta, litas, pails, paisa, paise, palea, pales. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: apetalies, basipetal, lapidates, palatines, palliates, parietals, psalteria, stapedial, stapelias. | |
+2 letters: analeptics, asphaltite, caliphates, capitalise, metaplasia, palmitates, palpitates, spermatial, tailplanes. | |
+3 letters: allopatries, altarpieces, antiplagues, aseptically, asphaltites, basipetally, capitalised, capitalises, capitalizes, capitulates, catalepsies, cataleptics, cataplexies, dilapidates, disparately, ipsilateral, manipulates, metaplasias, metaplastic, paclitaxels, palatalizes, palatinates, palliatives, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, planarities, transalpine. | |
+4 letters: alphabetizes, antipleasure, appellations, appellatives, capabilities, capitularies, caterpillars, explanations, kleptomanias, laparotomies, laureateship, malpractices, metaphysical, palatialness, pansexuality, partialities, particulates, passionately, paternalisms, paternalists, planetariums, planetesimal, plantigrades, platemakings, pleasantries, proletarians, proletariats, semipalmated, separability, slaphappiest, spatialities, speciational, spectatorial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 61 70 65 6C 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - .- .--. . .-.. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100001 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t a p e l i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0061 0070 0065 006C 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5386678271787567 |
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