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VALONIA

Definitions: VALONIA

VALONIA

Noun

1. A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.

2. The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Valonia \Va*lo"ni*a\, noun. [Italian vallonia, vallonea, from NGr. balania`, balanidia`, the holm oak, bala`ni, balani`di, an acorn, Greek ba`lanos.]. (Websters 1913)

Expression: VALONIA

Expression using "VALONIA": valonia oak. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VALONIA

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

valonia

3
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Modern Translations: VALONIA

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

Danish

  

Valonia-eg (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

valonia eik (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), Griekse eik (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valonitammi (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), turkintammi (bitter oak, Greek oak, moss-cupped oak, mossy oak, Turkey oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

French

  

velanede (valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), vallonĂ©e (valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), chĂȘne de Valonia (valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), avelanede (valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

German

  

Valoneneiche (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), Valonea (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), Knoppereiche (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), Ackerdoppen (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Vallonea (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aloniavay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

Valonian oak (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), grecian oak (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak), asiatic oak (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

valloniaek (Greek oak, valonea, valonea oak, valonean oak, valonia oak). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

palamut (acorn, Bonito, horse mackarel, mast). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: VALONIA

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Quercus aegylops, Quercus valonea. (various references)

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Derivations: VALONIA

Derivations

Words beginning with "VALONIA": valonias. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "VALONIA"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "VALONIA" (pronounced vulō"nyu)
4-ō" n y uammonia, begonia, pneumonia.
3-n y uCalif, gardenia, lasagna, Titania.

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Anagrams: VALONIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-n-o-v"

-2 letters: aloin, anvil, avail, avian, avion, lanai, liana, naval, nival, vinal, viola, voila.

-3 letters: alan, anal, anil, anoa, lain, lava, lino, lion, loan, loin, nail, naoi, noil, nova, oval, vail, vain, vial, vina, vino, viol.

-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, ala, ana, ani, ava, avo, ion, lav, lin, nil, oil, ova, van, via.

-5 letters: aa, ai, al, an, in, la, li, lo, na, no, on.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-n-o-v"
 

+1 letter: lavation, valonias.

 

+2 letters: lavations, salvation, valuation.

 

+3 letters: adenoviral, evaluation, lovastatin, salivation, salvations, validation, valuations, vocational.

 

+4 letters: alleviation, autoclaving, avocational, clairvoyant, devaluation, evaluations, invalidator, laborsaving, lovastatins, revaluation, salivations, salvational, unavoidable, unavoidably, vacillation, vacuolation, validations, valuational, variational, vibrational.

 

+5 letters: alleviations, clairvoyance, clairvoyants, concanavalin, derivational, devaluations, excavational, innovational, invalidation, invalidators, invitational, invocational, levitational, malversation, motivational, navigational, overanalysis, postvaccinal, reevaluation, revalidation, revaluations, salvationism, salvationist, vacationland, vacillations, vacuolations, valorization, vasodilation, vegetational, velarization, vitalization, vocalization, vocationally, volcanically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VALONIA


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

56 41 4C 4F 4E 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)

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

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

01010110 01000001 01001100 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 004C 004F 004E 0049 0041

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

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

56354649484335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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