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SOMBONAZA

Specialty Definition: SOMBONAZA

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Botanical

Young leaves are eaten as a salad (!). The leaves are used to make hats (!), baskets (!), brooms, fly swatters, etc. the inner portions of the lower leafstalks and the berries are quite edible (!). Rhizomes are used as a salad and potherb in various parts of Latin America. In 1538, Juan de Vadillo and his conquistadores lived for days on nothing but Iraca for food. To this day, the growing points or nacumas are eaten, with a flavor suggesting asparagus. (references)

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

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Anagrams: SOMBONAZA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-m-n-o-o-s-z"

-2 letters: amazons, bazooms.

-3 letters: abomas, amazon, bazoos.

-4 letters: aboma, aboon, ambos, anoas, azans, azons, bazoo, booms, boons, bosom, boson, bozos, manas, manos, mason, moans, monas, monos, moons, mozos, nomas, nomos, omasa, samba, sambo, zooms, zoons.

-5 letters: abas, abos, amas, ambo, anas, anoa, ansa, azan, azon, baas, bams, bans, boas, boom, boon, boos, bozo, mana, mano.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SOMBONAZA


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

53 4F 4D 42 4F 4E 41 5A 41

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 01001111 01001101 01000010 01001111 01001110 01000001 01011010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#77 &#66 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#90 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004D 0042 004F 004E 0041 005A 0041

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

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

534947364948356035

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2. Orthography
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