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Definition: Silene |
SileneNoun1. Any plant of the genus Silene. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "silene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Etymology: Silene \Si*le"ne\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression Silenus, the attendant of Bacchus.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SileneSynonyms: campion (n), catchfly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Silene |
| English words defined with "silene": Behn, Bladder campion, Bon Silene ♦ campion, catchfly ♦ Flybane ♦ genus Silene ♦ Silene acaulis, Silene caroliniana, Silene dioica, Silene latifolia, Silene uniflora, Silene virginica, Silene vulgaris, Spatling poppy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Silene" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (campion, catchfly). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Silene spaldingii, a State-classified endangered plant found in Lincoln County, Washington. Credit: Barbara Brenner. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Silene" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Silene" is used about 13 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 (proper) | 84.62% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "silene": Bon Silene ♦ genus Silene ♦ Silene acaulis ♦ Silene caroliniana ♦ Silene dioica ♦ Silene inflata ♦ Silene latifolia ♦ Silene Pennsylvanica ♦ Silene stellata ♦ Silene uniflora ♦ Silene virginica ♦ Silene vulgaris. 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 |
silene | 24 |
silene armeria | 4 |
silene vulgaris | 4 |
silene regia | 2 |
modelo silene | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "silene" (pronounced 'Si*le"ne'): Abalone, Acne, Benne, Canzone, Chelone, Cicerone, Clione, Conversazi-one, Dampne, Daphne, Fonne, krone, Melne, Nempne, Osanne, Oughne, Padrone, Pallone, Paraselene, Progne, Rekne, Ronne, Solempne, Somne, Sompne, Violone, Wilne, Yronne. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enisle, ensile, senile. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, seine. | |
-2 letters: eels, else, isle, lees, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, lins, nils, seel, seen, sene, sine. | |
-3 letters: eel, els, ens, ins, lee, lei, lie, lin, lis, nee, nil, see, sei, sel, sen, sin. | |
-4 letters: el, en, es, in, is, li, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: enisled, enisles, ensiled, ensiles, felines, license, liernes, linseed, lisente, nellies, oleines, pensile, relines, seeling, selenic, seniles, setline, silence, tensile, yeelins. | |
+2 letters: alexines, alienees, alieners, baseline, beelines, berlines, blennies, centiles, cineoles, declines, delaines, eloiners, enlisted, enlistee, enlister, enlivens, ensilage, entitles, evilness, feelings, felonies, gentiles, heelings, hemlines, idleness, lenities, lesioned, leucines, licences, licensed, licensee, licenser, licenses, likeness, lineages, lineless, linesmen, linseeds, listened, listener, liveners, liveness, myelines, nebulise, negliges, nestlike, noselike, novelise, olefines, peelings, penalise, penlites, pilsener, plenties, reclines, redlines, reenlist, reinless, salience, seedling, selenide, selenite, selenium, senilely, sensible, sentinel, sepaline, setlines, sideline, silenced, silencer, silences, silenter, sleeking, sleeping, sleeting, sleeving, sniveled, sniveler, speeling, spinelle, steeling, stilbene, tensible, theelins, tinseled, veinless, veinlets, veinules, vileness, wineless. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6C 65 6E 65 |
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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)... .. .-.. . -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i l e n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006C 0065 006E 0065 |
| 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)537578718071 |
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