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Definitions: Cecropia |
CecropiaNoun1. Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc. 2. North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cecropia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references) |
Synonyms: CecropiaSynonyms: cecropia moth (n), genus Cecropia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cecropia |
| English words defined with "Cecropia": cecropia moth, Cecropia peltata ♦ Emperor moth ♦ genus Cecropia ♦ Hyalophora cecropia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cecropia": Amphialus, ANTIBILIOUS, ANTIHEPATITIC ♦ BARK CLOTH ♦ CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA ♦ TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES, TOOTHACHE PLANTS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cecropia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (Nikla, Yarumba). |
| "Cecropia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Cecropia" is used about 6 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cecropia": cecropia moth ♦ Cecropia peltata ♦ genus Cecropia ♦ Hyalophora cecropia ♦ Platysamia cecropia. 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 |
cecropia moth | 73 |
cecropia | 23 |
cecropia moths | 9 |
cecropia peltata | 7 |
cecropia hyalophora | 7 |
cecropia silkmoth | 6 |
cecropia tree | 5 |
adenopus cecropia | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: caprice. | |
-2 letters: capric, cicero, copier, icecap, ipecac, picaro. | |
-3 letters: areic, caper, carpi, cerci, ceria, ceric, circa, coper, copra, coria, crape, cripe, croci, erica, ocrea, opera, pacer, pareo, price, recap. | |
-4 letters: acre, aero, aper, arco, cape, capo, care, carp, ceca, cero, ciao, cire, coca, coir, cope, core, crap, croc, crop, epic, orca, pace, pair, pare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: precocial. | |
+2 letters: peacockier, prevocalic, reciprocal. | |
+3 letters: narcoleptic, procephalic, reciprocals, reciprocate. | |
+4 letters: accomplisher, cacographies, cataphoretic, chalcopyrite, conspiracies, microcapsule, microcephaly, narcoleptics, necrophiliac, overcapacity, plutocracies, reciprocally, reciprocated, reciprocates, reciprocator, reoccupation, scenographic. | |
+5 letters: accomplishers, cephalometric, chalcopyrites, choreographic, cochairperson, contraception, contraceptive, coparcenaries, ectoparasitic, hydrocephalic, lexicographic, microcapsules, microcephalic, microparticle, necrophiliacs, nonreciprocal, oceanographic, perspicacious, petrochemical, phallocentric, plantocracies, preoccupation, prolificacies, pyrotechnical, reciprocating, reciprocation, reciprocative, reciprocators, reoccupations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 65 63 72 6F 70 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)-.-. . -.-. .-. --- .--. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C e c r o p i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0065 0063 0072 006F 0070 0069 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)3771698481827567 |
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