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Apothecium

Definition: Apothecium

Apothecium

Noun

1. A cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi.

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

Etymology: Apothecium \Apo`*the"ci*um\, noun; plural Apothecia. [New Latin]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Apothecium

DomainDefinitions

Science

A type of ascoma; a more or less flat, disc-like fruit, either round (e.g. Lecidea) or elongate (e.g. Opegrapha) in which the hymenium is exposed at maturity. pl. apothecia. (references)

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Crosswords: Apothecium

English words defined with "apothecium": Apothecia, apothecialelf cupHelotialesLirellaorder HelotialesPeltaScutellumTrica. (references)
Specialty definitions using "apothecium": lecanorine, lecideine. (references)

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Rhyming with "Apothecium"

Words rhyming with "apothecium" (pronounced 'Apo`*the"ci*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum, Ascidiarium. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Apothecium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-o-p-t-u"

-2 letters: empathic, emphatic, euphotic.

-3 letters: achiote, aphetic, aphotic, apomict, apothem, compute, copihue, couthie, ectopia, hematic, hepatic, impeach, matchup, metopic, outpace, potamic, potiche.

-4 letters: acetum, aecium, atomic, atopic, capote, cheapo, coempt, comate, cometh, coteau, haemic, haptic, hepcat, humate, impact, impute, mahout, ophite, opiate, optima, optime, phatic, photic, poetic, pomace, pumice, teacup, toecap, touche, uptime, utopia.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-o-p-t-u"
 

+4 letters: computerphobia, subatmospheric.

 

+5 letters: computerphobias.

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Alternative Orthography: Apothecium


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

41 70 6F 74 68 65 63 69 75 6D

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100011 01101001 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0070 006F 0074 0068 0065 0063 0069 0075 006D

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

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

35828186747169758779

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4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
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