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Definition: BLITE |
BLITENoun1. A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite. |
Etymology: Blite \Blite\ (bl[imac]t), noun. [Latin expression blitum, Greek bli`ton.]. (references) |
Crosswords: BLITE |
| English words defined with "BLITE": strawberry blite. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Sea blite - Suaeda maritima at Sage Lot Pond, South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expressions using "BLITE": sea blite ♦ strawberry blite. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BLITE": Frost-blite. | |
| 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 |
blite | 5 |
blite tomato | 4 |
blite tomatoe | 2 |
blite fire | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | rød gåsefod (coast blite, red goosefoot), amarant (amaranth, livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | |
Dutch | rode ganzevoet (coast blite, red goosefoot), kleine majer (livid amaranth, wild blite), aardbeispinazie (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite). (various references) | |
Finnish | punasavikka (coast blite, red goosefoot), mykerösavikka (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), kohenevarevonhäntä (livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | |
French | blette capitée (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), chénopode rouge (coast blite), amarante livide (wild blite). (various references) | |
German | roter Gaensefuss (coast blite, red goosefoot), Kopf-Gaensefuss (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), gruenlicher Fuchsschwanz (livid amaranth, wild blite), gruenlicher Amarant (livid amaranth, wild blite), aehriger Erdbeerspinat (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite). (various references) | |
Greek | χηνοπόδιο το ερυθρό (coast blite, red goosefoot), αμάραντος ο όρθιος (livid amaranth, wild blite), ψευδόβλητο το κεφαλωτό (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite). (various references) | |
Italian | blito (wild blite), spinaccio moro (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), amaranto livido (livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | |
Manx | lus ny gless (sea blite). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iteblay.(various references) | |
Spanish | bredo (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), blero (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), bledonera (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), bledomera (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), bledo rojo (wild blite), bledo (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), berrinches (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), amaranto ascendente (livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | |
Swedish | smultronmålla (blite goosefoot, strawberry blite), rödmålla (coast blite, red goosefoot), mållamarant (livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amaranthus ascendens Loisel., Amaranthus lividus L., Blitum capitatum L., Chenopodium capitatum Aschers., Chenopodium rubrum L., Sueda maritima. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLITE": blites. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BLITE": obliterate, obliterated, obliterates, obliterating, obliteration, obliterations, obliterative, obliterator, obliterators, subliteracies, subliteracy, subliterary, subliterate, subliterature, subliteratures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ite": Cite, Gite, mite, rite, site, Skrite, sprite, trite, Twite, white. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: belt, bile, bite, blet, lite, tile. | |
-2 letters: bel, bet, bit, lei, let, lib, lie, lit, tel, tie, til. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, el, et, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: albeit, albite, billet, blites, blithe, blivet, boleti, giblet, riblet. | |
+2 letters: albites, astilbe, bastile, batlike, belting, bestial, bibelot, billets, bilsted, bimetal, bitable, blastie, blintze, blister, blither, blitzed, blitzes, blivets, bristle, brittle, citable, driblet, filbert, giblets, gilbert, labiate, liberty, librate, limbate, rebuilt, riblets, stabile, subtile, thimble, timbale, timbrel, triable, tublike. | |
+3 letters: ablative, agitable, astilbes, bailment, balkiest, balletic, balmiest, bastiles, bastille, bedquilt, beetling, belittle, beltings, beltline, biacetyl, bibelots, bidental, bilgiest, billeted, billeter, bilobate, bilsteds, bimetals, bimethyl, binately, biteable, bitterly, bivalent, blastier, blasties, bleating, blighted, blighter, blindest, blintzes, blisters, blistery, blithely, blithers, blithest, blottier, bloviate, blowiest, bluetick, boatlike, botflies, bristled, bristles, brittled, brittler, brittles, bulgiest, bulkiest, bulletin, bulliest, buntline, burliest, bustline, celibate, citeable, debility, dribblet, driblets, dutiable, editable, epiblast, evitable, filberts, fittable, fleabite, gilberts, glibbest, imitable, instable, jubilate, kilobyte, labiated, labiates, laborite, lambiest, libelant, libelist, liberate, librated, librates, libretti, libretto, lifeboat, liftable, limbiest, listable, nimblest, obligate, partible, pitiable, satiable, sibilate, stabiles, stilbene, stilbite, strobile, subtiler, subtitle, suitable, tailbone, tangible, tensible, tensibly, terrible, terribly, thimbles, thurible, tillable, tiltable, timbales, timbrels, tippable, tithable, titrable, tomblike, trebling, trilbies, trilobed, tubelike, tullibee, vitiable, writable. | |
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