Superbug

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Superbug

Definition: Superbug

Superbug

Noun

1. A strain accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias.

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

Synonym: Superbug

Synonym: poinsettia strain (n). (additional references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Superbug

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
superbug	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Superbug

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-g-p-r-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: upsurge.
	-2 letters: purges, pursue, spurge, superb.
	-3 letters: bergs, burgs, burps, burse, grubs, grues, gurus, pubes, purge, purse, rebus, rubes, rubus, sprue, sprug, suber, super, surge, urges, usurp.
	-4 letters: begs, berg, bugs, burg, burp, burs, ergs, grub, grue, guru, pegs, pubs, pugs, pure, purs, rebs, regs, reps, rube, rubs, rues, rugs, ruse, spue, spur, suer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Superbug

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

53 75 70 65 72 62 75 67

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)

01010011 01110101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100010 01110101 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#117 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#98 &#117 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0075 0070 0065 0072 0062 0075 0067

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

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

5387827184688773

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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