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Genista

Definition: Genista

Genista

Noun

1. Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom.

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

Etymology: Genista \Ge*nis"ta\, noun. [Latin expression, broom.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Genista

Synonym: genus Genista (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Genista

English words defined with "Genista": broomGenista anglica, Genista hispanica, Genista raetam, Genista tinctoria, genus Genista, genus Retama, Green-broomjuniper, juniper bushraetam, Retama, Retama raetam, retem. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Genista" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (greenweed), Spanish (Genista).

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Usage Frequency: Genista

"Genista" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Genista" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Genista

Expressions using "Genista": Genista anglica Genista hispanica Genista raetam Genista Scorpius Genista tinctoria genus Genista. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Genista

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

genista

14

premier genista

5

genista lydia

4

genista pilosa

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

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Modern Translations: Genista

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

Arabic 

  

‏عفريتة (hag). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Прещип. (various references)

   

Danish

  

bevoksning af Genista purgans i bjergene (mountain Genista purgans formation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

montane Genista purgans formatie (mountain Genista purgans formation). (various references)

   

French

  

Fée. (various references)

   

German

  

Formation von Genista purgans in Berggebieten (mountain Genista purgans formation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ορεινή διάπλαση με Genista purgans (mountain Genista purgans formation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Rekettye (broom, furze). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Ginestra (broom, gorse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enistagay

   

Portuguese

  

Gênio (daemon, ethyl, genie, genius, spirit, temper). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

"рок. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrsta biljke (calceolaria, calendula, campion, candytuft, cuckooflower, cudweed, delphinium, sisal, sow-thistle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Genista. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Ginst (broom, greenweed). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Katırtırnağı (broom, gorse). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

"рік. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Genista"

Words rhyming with "Genista" (pronounced 'Ge*nis"ta'): Abranchiata, Albata, Amanita, Amniota, Amrita, Annellata, Annulata, Anotta, Anta, Aorta, Aplacentata, Appendiculata, Aprocta, Argonauta, Arista, Articulata, Atlanta, Avesta, Bafta, Ballista, Baryta, Basta, Battuta, Berretta, beta, Bonetta, Brachiata, Burletta, Cantata, Carromata, Catallacta, Caudata, Cephalata, Charta, Chiretta, Chordata, Cicuta, Ciliata, Cirrobranchiata, Coaita, Codetta, Comedietta, Costa, Cotta, Craniota, Crusta, Cryptobranchiata, Cuesta, Decacerata, Deciduata, Dejecta, Dermobranchiata, Dibranchiata, Diota, dorsibranchiata, Dynasta, Edentata, Egesta, Ejecta, Enteropneusta, Excreta, fiesta, Flagellata, Flota, Fughetta, Fulgurata, Glossata, Gutta, Haustellata, Hepta, Hydrobranchiata, Hyperotreta, impedimenta, Imperforata, inamorata, Infanta, Inferobranchiata, ingesta, Insecta, Invertebrata, Iota, Jugata, junta, Keta, Koaita, Lametta, Locusta, Loricata, Lytta, magenta, manta, Mantelletta, manzanita, maranta, Martineta, matamata, Mezquita, Negrita, Nerita, Nucleobranchiata, Nudibranchiata, Oblongata, Operetta, Organista, pachonta, Palliobranchiata, Pallometa, Paramatta, Parasita, Paridigitata, Partita, Pectinibranchiata, Pedata, Pedunculata, Pellibranchiata, Pelota, Pelta, Perennibranchiata, Peseta, Pharyngopneusta, Pimenta, Pitta, Placenta, Podesta, Polenta, Polyprotodonta, Poriferata, Porta, Postoblongata, Praetexta, Preoblongata, Prosobranchiata, Prosopulmonata, Protoplasta, Prototracheata, Pulmonata, Pulmonibranchiata, Quata, Quota, Radiata, Radio-flagellata, Ramenta, Rata, reata, regatta, Rejectamenta, Rhynchota, Sagitta, sapota, Scutibranchiata, Senorita, SETA, Shasta, siesta, Siphonata, Siphonobranchiata, Softa, sonata, Sortita, Squamata, Synapta, Tabulata, Taeniata, Tatta, Tectibranchiata, Tentaculata, Tessellata, Testudinata, Tetrabranchiata, Theriodonta, theta, toccata, Torta, Toxodonta, Tracheata, Trilobita, Tubulibranchiata, Tunicata, Ulonata, Uncinata, Unguiculata, Valvata, Vedanta, Vendetta, Vertebrata, Vesiculata, Vesta, Vista, Vitta, Volta, Voluta, Zend-Avesta, Zeta, Zeuglodonta, Zeugobranchiata. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Genista

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: easting, eatings, ingates, ingesta, seating, teasing.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t"

-1 letter: ageist, agents, easing, eating, gainst, giants, ingate, ingest, sating, signet, tenias, tineas, tinges, tisane.

-2 letters: aegis, agent, agist, angst, anise, antes, antis, entia, etnas, gains, gaits, gates, gents, getas, giant, gnats, inset, nates, neats, neist, nites, saint, satin, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stage, staig, stain, stane, stang, stein, sting, tains, tangs, tenia, tinea, tines, tinge, tings.

-3 letters: ages, agin, ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, egis, engs, etas, etna, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gast, gate, gats, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, neat, nest, nets, nite, nits, sage, sain, sane, sang, sate, sati, seat, sent, seta, sign, sine, sing, site, snag, snit, stag, tags, tain, tang, tans, teas, tegs, tens, ties, tine, ting, tins.

-4 letters: age, ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eng, ens, eta, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ins, its, nae, nag, net, nit, sae, sag, sat, sea, seg, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tag, tan, tas, tea, teg, ten, tie, tin, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: angriest, antigens, astringe, beatings, eastings, estating, feasting, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gelatins, genitals, gentians, giantess, granites, ingrates, mangiest, mintages, misagent, naggiest, rangiest, sauteing, seatings, sedating, steading, stealing, steaming, sweating, tangiest, tziganes, unitages, vintages, yeasting.

 

+2 letters: absenting, agentings, agentives, agentries, agonistes, alginates, anglesite, antigenes, arresting, assenting, asserting, astringed, astringes, athelings, attesting, basseting, beastings, breasting, caseating, casketing, demasting, desalting, designate, egyptians, emigrants, estraying, fastening, gainliest, galenites, gangliest, ganisters, gannister, gantlines, gauntries, gelatines, gelations, geminates, gestating, gestation, gnarliest, gnathites, gnattiest, gradients, grainiest, gratinees, grievants, hastening, indagates, ingathers, instigate, integrals, jangliest, legations, ligaments, magnesite, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, mastering, misagents, miseating, naethings, navigates, negations, negatives, orangiest, paginates, recasting, repasting, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retasting, safetying, sensating, seriating, serrating, sheathing, signature, slangiest, snaggiest, staginess, steadings, steadying, stealings, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teachings, teaseling, teasingly, trapesing, triangles, twangiest, umangites, unseating, vintagers, waterings.

 

+3 letters: abiogenist, absterging, alignments, amnestying, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, appetising, aragonites, argentines, argentites, asperating, assignment, astringent, autogenies, autosexing, bassetting, besteading, breathings, carpetings, centigrams, chastening, clientages, denigrates, descanting, designated, designates, designator, desolating, destaining, disseating, earthlings, eglantines, enswathing, escalating, escheating, estimating, estivating, estranging, estreating, evangelist, exhausting, fastenings, galantines, gannisters, garnitures, gatherings, gelatinous, gemmations, generalist, germinates, gestations, giantesses, glutamines, granulites, guaranties, gyniatries, harvesting, hesitating, instigated, instigates, integrands, integrates, interstage, isoantigen, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnitudes, manganites, marginates, marketings, metalising, misseating, morganites, naughtiest, nauseating, negativism, negativist, negotiants, negotiates, nightmares, nightshade, originates, panegyrist, parentings, plastering, precasting, prepasting, pretasting, registrant, resaluting, resinating, resonating, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retailings, ringmaster, sauntering, scattering, separating, shattering, sheathings, signalment, signatures, slathering, smartening, smattering, spangliest, spattering, speciating, spectating, staggering, stammering, stampeding, starveling, steamering, stewarding, stingarees, straighten, streakings, streamings, supergiant, tangencies, tangerines, tasselling, teaselling, tetanising, timesaving, tragedians, transgenic, traversing, treasuring, vesicating, vigilantes, wadsetting.

 

+4 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abridgments, advertising, aestivating, afforesting, alightments, allegations, ancestoring, angiotensin, antagonizes, anthologies, antiplagues, arrestingly, assignments, asterisking, astringency, astringents, brigantines, caretakings, cartelising, charmingest, coattesting, decussating, degustation, delegations, denegations, denigrators, derogations, desecrating, desiccating, designating, designation, designative, designators, designatory, despatching, detasseling, devastating, dignitaries, disentangle, elongations, emigrations, empathising, ensheathing, ergotamines, evangelists, everlasting, exsiccating, featherings, festinating, forecasting, foretasting, gadolinites, gallantries, gangsterish, gangsterism, garnierites, garnishment, gelatinizes, geminations, genealogist, generalists, generations, genialities, gentamicins, geobotanies, geobotanist, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, gigantesque, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, greasepaint, haughtiness, heartstring, iceboatings, impregnants, impregnates, inaugurates, ingratiates, insheathing, instigative, intangibles, integrators, interabangs, intergrades, intergrafts, invaginates, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, isoantigens, langoustine, lastingness, legislating, legislation, levigations, ligamentous, lightplanes, linecasting, magnetising, magnetizers, malignities, manifesting, martingales, mastheading, metagenesis, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, misteaching, mistreating, mutagenesis, naughtiness, nearsighted, negativisms, negativists, negotiators, nightshades, nitrogenase, outfeasting, outspeaking, outswearing, overcasting, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, pacesetting, pageantries, palletising, panegyrists, patternings, pedestaling, personating, plaistering, plasterings, postweaning, prestamping, pugnacities, quarterings, readjusting, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, refastening, regimentals, regionalist, registrants, regulations, reinstating, relegations, remastering, resignation, restraining, ringmasters, ringstraked, scatterings, segregating, segregation, sergeanties, signalments, signatories, smatterings, spaghettini, speculating, splattering, springwater, squattering, staginesses, stagnancies, stalemating, starvelings, steelmaking, straightens, straitening, strangering, stranguries, supergiants, tapestrying, teargassing, telecasting, theologians, trailerings, transecting, transfigure, trapnesting, travestying, trespassing, trigeminals, typecasting, unfastening, ungainliest, unsheathing, unsteadying, vaginitides, vegetarians, vegetations, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Genista


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

47 65 6E 69 73 74 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)

--.    .    -.    ..    ...    -    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006E 0069 0073 0074 0061

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

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

41718075858667

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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