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Wandflower

Definitions: Wandflower

Wandflower

Noun

1. A showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers.

2. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.

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


Synonyms: Wandflower

Synonyms: beetleweed (n), cold's foot (n), galax (n), galaxy (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Wandflower

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Wandflower (sparaxis tricolor also known as the harlequin flower or sparaxis) is a perennial bulb that grows in well-drained sunny soil. It gained its name from its extremely colorful flowers which are bi or tri-coloured with a golden centre and a small ring of brown surrounded by another colour.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wandflower."

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Misspellings: Wandflower

Misspellings

"Wandflower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: windblower. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Wandflower

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: foreland.

-3 letters: fondler, frowned, ladrone, reflown, werwolf.

-4 letters: darnel, downer, enfold, fardel, fawned, fawner, fedora, flared, flawed, florae, flowed, flower, foaled, folder, fonder, fondle, fowled, fowler, ladron, lander, lardon, loader, loafed, loafer, loaned, loaner, onward, ordeal, redowa, reflow, refold, reload, reloan, rolfed, rondel, wander, wandle, warden, warned, wawled, weldor, wolfed, wolfer, wonder.

-5 letters: adore.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wandflower


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

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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)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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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. Derivations
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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