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Archosaur

Definition: Archosaur

Archosaur

Noun

1. Extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts.

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


Synonyms: Archosaur

Synonyms: archosaurian (n), archosaurian reptile (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Archosaur

"Archosaur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Archosaur" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Archosaur

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

archosaur

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

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Derivations: Archosaur

Derivations

Words beginning with "archosaur": archosaurian, archosaurs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Archosaur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-o-r-r-s-u"

-2 letters: aurochs, auroras, charros, curaras, sahuaro.

-3 letters: acarus, aurora, charas, charro, charrs, chorus, churrs, cruors, curara, cursor, soucar.

-4 letters: arcus, arras, aurar, auras, carrs, chaos, charr, chars, churr, crash, cruor, crura, crush, currs, haars, hoars, hocus, horas, hours, orach, orcas, roach, roars, sacra, sauch, scaur, scour, surah, surra.

-5 letters: aahs, arch, arco, arcs, aura, carr.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-o-r-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: archosaurs.

 

+3 letters: archosaurian.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Archosaur


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

41 72 63 68 6F 73 61 75 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)

01000001 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101111 01110011 01100001 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#115 &#97 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0063 0068 006F 0073 0061 0075 0072

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

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

358469748185678784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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