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ACROSPIRE

Definitions: ACROSPIRE

ACROSPIRE

Intransitive verb

1. To put forth the first sprout.

Noun

1. The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: ACROSPIRE

DomainDefinitions

Biology & Biotechnology

The spiral plumule in a germinating grain. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Acrospire

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In botany, the acrospire is the sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; so called from its spiral form.

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

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Synonyms within Context: ACROSPIRE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Posterity

Child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: ACROSPIRE

Language Translations for "ACROSPIRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

staengelspire (plumule), kimknop (plumule), bladspire (plumule). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

veertje (plumule), pluimpje (plumule), bladkiem (plumule). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alkeissilmu (plumule), sirkkasilmu (plumule), plumula (plumule). (various references)

   

French

  

plumule, gemmule. (various references)

   

German

  

Urknospe (plumule), Sprossteil (plumule), Plumula (plumule), Blattkeim (plumule). (various references)

   

Italian

  

piumetta (plumule), gemmula (gemmule, plumule). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acrospireay

   

Portuguese

  

plúmula (plumule, tigel, tigella, tigelle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

plúmula (plumule). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stamknopp (plumule), plumula (plumule). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ACROSPIRE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

plumula. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: ACROSPIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-r-r-s"

-1 letter: perisarc.

-2 letters: aspirer, carpers, carries, cirrose, coarser, copiers, corries, corsair, crisper, crosier, orrices, parries, picaros, praiser, pricers, prosaic, prosier, rapiers, raspier, repairs, scarier, scarper, scoriae, scraper, scrapie, soapier, spacier.

-3 letters: airers, apices, ariose, aspire, capers, capris, carers, caries, carper, cerias, coarse, copers, copier, copies, copras, corers, corpse, corrie, cosier, crapes, criers, cripes, crores, ericas, escarp, operas, orrice, pacers, pareos, parers, paries, parsec, parser, picaro, poiser, praise, precis, pricer, prices, priers, priors, proser, racers, racier, raiser, rapers, rapier, rasper, recaps, repair, repros, ricers, ropers, ropier, rosier, scarer, scorer, scoria, scrape, secpar, sierra, soaper, soarer, spacer, sparer, spicae, spicer, spirea, sprier.

-4 letters: acres, airer, apers, apres, areic, arise, arose, arris, asper, aspic, caper, capes, capos, carer, cares, carpi, carps, carrs, carse, ceria, ceros, cires, coirs, coper, copes, copra, copse, corer, cores, coria, corps, corse, cosie, crape, craps, crier, cries, cripe, crisp, crops, crore, epics, erica, escar, ocrea, opera, orcas, orris, osier, pacer, paces, pairs, paise, pareo, parer, pares, paris, parrs, parse, paseo, pears, peris, picas, piers, pisco, poise, pores, poser, praos, prase, presa, price, prier, pries, prior, prise, proas, prose, psoae, psoai, racer, races, raise, raper, rapes, rares, raser, reaps, rears, recap, repos, repro, ricer, rices, riper, ripes, riser, roars, roper, ropes, saice, sapor, scape, scare, scarp, scope, score, scrap, scrip, sepia, sepic, serac, serai, sirra, sorer, space, spare, spear, speir, spica, spice, spier, spire, spore.

-5 letters: aces, acre, aero, airs, aper, apes, apse, arco, arcs, ares, arse, asci, cape, capo, caps, care, carp, carr, cars, case, ceps, cero, ciao, cire, coir, cope, cops, core, cors, crap, cris, crop, ears, epic, epos, eras, eros, errs, ices, ires, oars, ocas, opes, orca, orcs, ores, orra, osar, pace, pacs, pair, pare, parr, pars, pase, pear, peas, pecs, peri, peso, pias, pica, pice, pics, pier, pies, piso, pois, pore, pose, prao, proa, pros, race, rape, raps, rare, rase, rasp, reap, rear, recs, reis, repo, reps, rias, rice, ripe, rips, rise, roar, rocs, roes, rope, rose, sari, scar, scop, sear, sera, sice, sipe, sire, soap, soar, sora, sore, sori, spae, spar, spec, spic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: paregorics, precarious.

 

+2 letters: archesporia, chairperson, proclaimers, reciprocals, replicators, tetrasporic, triceratops.

 

+3 letters: appreciators, archesporial, archesporium, chairpersons, chiropterans, cryptomerias, depreciators, dimercaprols, dipterocarps, discographer, incorporates, microamperes, precariously, procreations, reciprocates, superorganic.

 

+4 letters: arthroscopies, cartographies, cerebrospinal, chirographers, chirographies, chorographies, cochairperson, coparcenaries, copartnership, corporalities, cryotherapies, discographers, iconographers, intercompares, practitioners, preceptorials, precipitators, prehistorical, prevaricators, procarbazines, procrastinate, prosecutorial, reciprocators, recuperations, reprographics, sharecropping, stereographic, stratospheric, superromantic, terpsichorean, triceratopses, trichopterans, velociraptors.

 

+5 letters: cardiographies, choreographies, chronographies, cochairpersons, containerports, contemporaries, copartnerships, corporealities, cryptographies, lexicographers, microparticles, microspherical, nonreciprocals, particleboards, picornaviruses, precariousness, prevarications, procrastinated, procrastinates, reciprocations, reincorporates, spectrographic, superpatriotic, ultraprecision.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ACROSPIRE


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

41 43 52 4F 53 50 49 52 45

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 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010000 01001001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#80 &#73 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0052 004F 0053 0050 0049 0052 0045

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

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

353752495350435239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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