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Alpinia

Definition: Alpinia

Alpinia

Noun

1. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.

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

Synonyms: Alpinia

Synonyms: genus Alpinia (n), genus Languas (n), genus Zerumbet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Alpinia

English words defined with "Alpinia": Alpinia galanga, Alpinia officinalis, Alpinia officinarum, Alpinia purpurata, Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia ZerumbetChina rootgenus Alpinia. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Alpinia" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Shellflower).

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Image Slideshow: Alpinia

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Expressions: Alpinia

Expressions using "Alpinia": Alpinia Galanga Alpinia Gallanga Alpinia officinalis Alpinia officinarum Alpinia purpurata Alpinia speciosa Alpinia Zerumbet genus Alpinia. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alpinia

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

  alpinia

6

  alpinia zerumbet

5

  alpinia purpurata

4

  alpinia giardino panorama

3

  alpinia galanga

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

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Anagrams: Alpinia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-n-p"

-2 letters: aalii, apian, lanai, lapin, liana, lipin, plain.

-3 letters: alan, anal, anil, ilia, inia, lain, lipa, nail, nipa, pail, pain, pial, pian, pili, pina, plan.

-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, ala, alp, ana, ani, lap, lin, lip, nap, nil, nip, pal, pan, pia, pin.

-5 letters: aa, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na, pa, pi.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-n-p"
 

+2 letters: campanili.

 

+3 letters: lapidarian, lapidating, palisading, palliating, palliation.

 

+4 letters: anadiplosis, application, aptitudinal, callipygian, palliations, palpitating, palpitation, parasailing, patrilineal, patrimonial, pericranial, planarities, puritanical, sailplaning.

 

+5 letters: antiparticle, apparitional, applications, appositional, appraisingly, aspirational, capitalising, capitalizing, capitulating, capitulation, cardinalship, chaplaincies, dilapidating, dilapidation, epithalamion, implantation, inapplicable, inapplicably, incapability, manipulating, manipulation, manipulative, palatalizing, palpitations, parasailings, penalization, plagiarising, plagiarizing, platitudinal, polarization, saponifiable, speciational, supraliminal.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Alpinia


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

41 6C 70 69 6E 69 61

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)

01000001 01101100 01110000 01101001 01101110 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0070 0069 006E 0069 0061

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

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

35788275807567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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