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Cicada Killer

Definition: Cicada Killer

Cicada Killer

Noun

1. Large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas.

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


Synonym: Cicada Killer

Synonym: Sphecius speciosis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cicada Killer

English words defined with "cicada killer": genus SpheciusSphecius. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cicada Killer

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

cicada killer

36

cicada killer wasp

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cicada Killer

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

apis mellifera scutellata, Orca gladiator, Orcinus orca. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Cicada Killer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-i-k-l-l-r"

-3 letters: acaricide.

-4 letters: aecidial, clerical, crackled, lardlike.

-5 letters: accidia, accidie, aecidia, airlike, alcaide, alcalde, alkalic, cackled, cackler, caldera, calicle, cardiac, cardiae, cedilla, cicadae, circled, clacked, clacker, clarkia, clicked, clicker, craaled, cracked, crackle, cricked, dallier, decrial, deliria, dialler, dickier, icicled, kraaled, radiale, radical, radicel, radicle, rallied.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cicada Killer


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

43 69 63 61 64 61      4B 69 6C 6C 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000011 01101001 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100001 00100000 01001011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#100 &#97 &#32 &#75 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0069 0063 0061 0064 0061      004B 0069 006C 006C 0065 0072

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

3775696770672457578787184

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INDEX

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


  

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