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Amorphophallus

Definition: Amorphophallus

Amorphophallus

Noun

1. Any plant of the genus Amorphophallus.

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


Crosswords: Amorphophallus

English words defined with "amorphophallus": Amorphophallus campanulatus, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, Amorphophallus rivieri, Amorphophallus titanum ♦ genus Amorphophallus. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Amorphophallus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (amorphophallus).

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Specialty Definition: Amorphophallus

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Amorphophallus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Arales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Amorphophallus
Species
  • A. aberrans
  • A. albispathus
  • A. albus
  • A. asterostigmatus
  • A. atroviridis
  • A. bulbifer
  • A. cirrifer
  • A. coaetaneus
  • A. cruddasianus
  • A. curvistylis
  • A. eichleri
  • A. gigas
  • A. henryi
  • A. kiusianus
  • A. konjac
  • A. koratensis
  • A. lambii
  • A. lewallei
  • A. linearis
  • A. longituberosus
  • A. macrorhizus
  • A. maximus
  • A. maxwellii
  • A. obscurus
  • A. opertus
  • A. paeoniifolius
  • A. parvulus
  • A. polyanthus
  • A. salmoneus
  • A. saururus
  • A. sumawongii
  • A. swynnertonii
  • A. tenuistylis
  • A. thaiensis
  • A. titanum
  • A. verticillatus
  • A. yuloensis
  • A. yunnanensis
Ref: Alan Galloway
as of 2002-07-12
Amorphophallus plants have a tuber, from which a single inflorescence issues, followed by a single leaf. The spadix has female flowers at the bottom, then male flowers, then a blank area. In some species the spadix strongly resembles a penis, hence the name.

The titan arum, the world's biggest flower, belongs to this genus; a runner-up is A. gigas, which is taller, but has a somewhat smaller flower. A. konjac tubers are used to make konjaku, a Japanese thickening agent containing glucomannan.

Some species are called voodoo lily, as are some species of Sauromatum (also in Araceae).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amorphophallus."

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Expressions: Amorphophallus

Expressions using "amorphophallus": amorphophallus campanulatus ♦ amorphophallus paeonifolius ♦ amorphophallus rivieri ♦ amorphophallus titanum ♦ genus Amorphophallus. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amorphophallus

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  amorphophallus titanum

42

  amorphophallus konjac

30

  amorphophallus

29

  amorphophallus titanium

7

  amorphophallus bulbifer

7

  amorphophallus rivieri

4

  amorphophallus kerrii

4

  amorphophallus paeoniifolius

3

  amorphophallus sale

3

  amorphophallus ì

2

  amorphophallus prainii

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Amorphophallus

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Amorphophallus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Amorphophallus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-h-l-l-m-o-o-p-p-r-s-u"

-4 letters: allomorphs, malapropos.

-5 letters: allomorph, amorphous, malaprops.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Amorphophallus


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

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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)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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