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DISTOMA

Definition: DISTOMA

DISTOMA

Noun

1. A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Distoma \Dis"to*ma\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression di- di`s- twice mouth.]. (Websters 1913)


Expression: DISTOMA

Expression using "DISTOMA": Distoma lanceolatum. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: DISTOMA

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

German

  

Saugwurm (trematode). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ジカルボン酸 (dicarboxylic acid, dicyanogen, diphenyl, diphtheria, distemper, dysprosium, dystrophy, feminine form of gigolo, gigolette, gigolo, gigue, Givenchy, Gypsy, gypsy look, Holy War, Japanese Industrial Standard, Jekyll and Hyde, jib, jig, jigsaw puzzle, JIS, JIS mark, jitter, jitterbug, syphilis, zig-zag, zigzag demonstration, ZIP code, Zipangu, Zipper, Zippo). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ジストマ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istomaday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DISTOMA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: diatoms, mastoid.

Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s-t"

-1 letter: admits, amidst, diatom.

-2 letters: adios, adits, admit, amido, amids, atoms, datos, ditas, doats, doits, iotas, maids, maist, midst, misdo, moats, moist, odist, omits, ostia, staid, stoai, stoma, tamis, toads, tsadi.

-3 letters: adit, ados, aids, aims, aits, amid, amis, atom, dais, dams, dato, dims, dita, dits, doat, doit, doms, dost, dots, iota, mads, maid.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: atomised, coadmits, mastoids, mattoids, saintdom, toadyism.

 

+2 letters: amortised, diplomats, dogmatics, dogmatism, dogmatist, dominants, dominates, impastoed, mediators, midrashot, misatoned, saintdoms, toadyisms.

 

+3 letters: anatomised, badmintons, chromatids, damnations, demantoids, dermatosis, diatomites, dichromats, diplomates, dogmatisms, dogmatists, dogmatizes, dominators, mastodonic, mediations, meditators, metalloids, midrashoth, mislocated, modalities, prismatoid, staminodia, sudatorium.

 

+4 letters: admirations, admonitions, adoptianism, adoptionism, antimoderns, antimonides, audiometers, auditoriums, coatimundis, codominants, decimations, defamations, denominates, dichromates, dimethoates, diplomatist, disaccustom, dogmatizers, domesticate, dominations, emendations, eudaemonist, mandatories, mandolinist, manifestoed, mastoiditis, medications, meditations, moderations, modulations, mustachioed, myocarditis, nematocides, ordainments, prismatoids, radiometers, sodomitical, somatomedin, staminodium, subdominant, sudatoriums.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISTOMA


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

44 49 53 54 4F 4D 41

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)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0054 004F 004D 0041

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

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

38435354494735

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INDEX

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


  

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