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Tetterwort

Definition: Tetterwort

Tetterwort

Noun

1. Perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant.

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



Synonyms: Tetterwort

Synonyms: bloodroot (n), puccoon (n), redroot (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Tetterwort

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

Danish

  

blodurt (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Canadese bloedwortel (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot), bloedwortel (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

   

French

  

sanguinaire canadienne. (various references)

   

German

  

kanadisches Blutkraut (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαγκουϊναρία η καναδική (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sanguinaria (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etterworttay

   

Portuguese

  

sanguinária do Canadá (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sanguinaria del Canada (bloodroot, bloodwort, puccoon, redroot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tetterwort

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Sanguinaria canadensis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Tetterwort

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-r-t-t-t-t-w"

-2 letters: totterer.

-3 letters: rewrote, trotter.

-4 letters: retore, retort, rotter, terret, tetter, totter, wetter.

-5 letters: otter, retro, rewet, rotte, rower, torte, toter, tower, tweet, wrote.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tetterwort


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

54 65 74 74 65 72 77 6F 72 74

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)

01010100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0074 0074 0065 0072 0077 006F 0072 0074

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. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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