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Definition: Alosa |
AlosaNoun1. Shad. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AlosaSynonym: genus Alosa (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Alosa |
| English words defined with "Alosa": Alosa alosa, Alosa chrysocloris, Alosa pseudoharengus, Alosa sapidissima, Alose ♦ genus Alosa ♦ river shad. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Alosa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (shad), Latin (allis, allis shads, shads, twaite, twaite shads). |
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 | The gillnet catch being brought in. The species being fished for included, blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura; atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannosaurus; weakfish, Cynoscion regalis; Atlantic croaker, Micropogonus undulatus; white perch, Morone americanus; striped bass or rockfish, Morone saxatilis and; bluefish, Ponatomus saltatrix.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | An aerial view of the restoration area shows where the fish ladder was installed. The ladder was installed to increase spawning habitat for Alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus and Blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close up of the Parker River Dam before restoration. Several anadromous fish species use the river including; blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus; rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax and white perch, Morone americanus.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ||
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Alosa" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Alosa | Last name | 300 | 26,878 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Alosa": Alosa alosa ♦ Alosa chrysocloris ♦ Alosa finta ♦ Alosa pseudoharengus ♦ Alosa sapidissima ♦ C alosa ♦ Clupea alosa ♦ genus Alosa. 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 |
alosa | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: aals, alas, also, sola. | |
-2 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, las, sal, sol. | |
-3 letters: aa, al, as, la, lo, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: alamos, alohas, coalas, koalas. | |
+2 letters: alastor, amatols, analogs, areolas, arousal, asocial, avowals, balboas, canolas, catalos, cloacas, coastal, galagos, halloas, lavabos, parasol, payolas, scalado, solaria, solatia, tapalos. | |
+3 letters: aasvogel, abalones, abomasal, aboulias, acaulose, acaulous, acerolas, acholias, alamodes, alastors, alations, aldolase, alforjas, allobars, alloxans, ammonals, armloads, arousals, arugolas, aureolas, axoplasm, bacalaos, blastoma, calathos, calvados, caporals, caracols, carloads, carousal, caseload, cataloes, catalogs, cattalos, chloasma, coaevals, coalsack, crayolas, dalapons, granolas, lavaboes, loadstar, mandolas, mausolea, oatmeals, orinasal, otalgias, oxalates, palazzos, palookas, parasols, pastoral, pavlovas, payloads, postanal, psoralea, rasorial, sailboat, santalol, scalados, seasonal, sonantal, stomatal, talookas, valonias, variolas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6F 73 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01000001 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l o s a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006F 0073 0061 |
| 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)3578818567 |
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