Swanflower

  

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Swanflower

Definition: Swanflower

Swanflower

Noun

1. Any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan.

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


Synonyms: Swanflower

Synonyms: swan orchid (n), swanneck (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Swanflower

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: farnesol.

-3 letters: fawners, flowers, foresaw, fowlers, loafers, loaners, reflown, reflows, reloans, safrole, seafowl, werwolf, wolfers.

-4 letters: anoles, answer, arseno, enrols, falser, farles, fawner, felons, flanes, flares, florae, floras, flower, fowler, frowns, lanose, learns, loafer, loaner, loners, lorans, lowers, nerols, owners, reason, reflow, reloan, resawn, resown, rowans, rowels, rowens, safrol, senora, slower, wafers, walers.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-n-o-r-s-w-w"
 

+3 letters: waterfowlings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Swanflower


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

53 77 61 6E 66 6C 6F 77 65 72

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 01110111 01100001 01101110 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#119 &#97 &#110 &#102 &#108 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0077 0061 006E 0066 006C 006F 0077 0065 0072

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

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

53896780727881897184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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