Reedmace

  

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Reedmace

Definitions: Reedmace

Reedmace

Noun

1. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa.

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

"Reedmace" is a common misspelling or typo for: reed mace.



Synonyms: Reedmace

Synonyms: bullrush (n), bulrush (n), cat's-tail (n), nailrod (n), reed mace (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Reedmace

English words defined with "reedmace": narrow-leaved reedmace. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Reedmace

"Reedmace" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Reedmace" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reedmace

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

Dutch

  

lisdodde. (various references)

   

Manx

  

quiggal ny ben-shee (bulrush, greater reedmace), bossan doo (greater reedmace). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eedmaceray

   

Spanish

  

espadaña (bell gable, bulrush, steeple), anea (bulrush). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

su kamışı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Reedmace

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-m-r"

-1 letter: amerced, creamed, racemed.

-2 letters: amerce, decare, decree, emceed, raceme, reamed, recede, redeem, remade.

-3 letters: acred, adeem, ameer, arced, armed, cadre, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, cream, creed, creme, derma, dream, eared, edema, emcee, emeer, maced, macer, madre, merde, raced, ramee.

-4 letters: aced, acme, acre, cade, came, card, care, cede, cere, cram, dace, dame, dare, dear, deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dram, dree, mace, made, marc, mare, mead, meed, mere, race, read, ream, rede, reed.

-5 letters: ace, arc, are, arm, cad, cam, car, cee, dam, dee, ear, eme, era, ere, mac, mad, mae, mar, med, rad, ram, rec, red, ree, rem.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-m-r"
 

+1 letter: decameter.

 

+2 letters: decameters.

 

+3 letters: decemvirate, decremental.

 

+4 letters: aeromedicine, commandeered, decemvirates, overmedicate.

 

+5 letters: aeromedicines, determinacies, electrodermal, overmedicated, overmedicates, recommendable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Reedmace


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

52 65 65 64 6D 61 63 65

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)

01010010 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101101 01100001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#101 &#100 &#109 &#97 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0065 0064 006D 0061 0063 0065

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

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

5271717079676971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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