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PELORIA

Definition: PELORIA

PELORIA

Noun

1. Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PELORIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Etymology: Peloria \Pe*lo"ri*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression monstrous.]. (Websters 1913)

Derivations: PELORIA

Derivations

Words beginning with "PELORIA": pelorian, pelorias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PELORIA"

Words rhyming with "PELORIA" (pronounced 'Pe*lo"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Aporia, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Curia, Dataria, Desmobacteria, Desmomyaria, Dinosauria, Diphtheria, Dysphoria, Enaliosauria, Feria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, Grossularia, Halisauria, Hatteria, hematuria, Heteromyaria, Heterotricha, Holotricha. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PELORIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: palier, parole.

-2 letters: ariel, loper, oiler, opera, oriel, paler, pareo, parle, parol, pearl, peril, pilar, pilea, plier, polar, poler, prole, reoil.

-3 letters: aero, aloe, aper, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, leap, lear, liar, lier, lipa, lipe, lira, lire, lope, lore, olea, opal, oral, orle, pail, pair, pale, pare, peal, pear, peri, pial, pier.

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

+1 letter: capriole, oilpaper, pelorian, pelorias, petiolar, polarise, polarize, proemial.

 

+2 letters: caprioled, caprioles, leporidae, nonpareil, oilpapers, overplaid, parboiled, parhelion, piperonal, polarised, polarises, polarized, polarizer, polarizes, porcelain, precocial, precoital, prolamine, saprolite.

 

+3 letters: apologizer, bipolarize, complainer, depilatory, depolarize, epistolary, explicator, graptolite, heliograph, impersonal, importable, improbable, improvable, inoperable, kiloparsec, leprosaria, nalorphine, nonpareils, overplaids, palindrome, panbroiled, perfoliate, periodical, periosteal, peritoneal, piperonals, plesiosaur, polarities, polarizers, polyparies, popularise, popularize, porcelains, praetorial, pratincole, preholiday, prelogical, prevocalic, proclaimed, proclaimer, profitable, profligate, prolamines, proverbial, reciprocal, replicator, repolarize, rhizoplane, saprolites, spheroidal, tetraploid, trampoline.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PELORIA


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

50 45 4C 4F 52 49 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)

01010000 01000101 01001100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#76 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 004C 004F 0052 0049 0041

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

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

50394649524335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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