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Colewort

Definition: Colewort

Colewort

Noun

1. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.

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

Date "colewort" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Colewort \Cole"wort`\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression cawlwyrt; cawl cole wyrt wort. Compare to Collards.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Colewort

Synonyms: borecole (n), cole (n), kail (n), kale (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Colewort

Etymologies containing "colewort": CollardsErucakale. (references)

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Expression: Colewort

Expression using "colewort": sea colewort. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Colewort

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

Danish

  

strandkaal (sea kale). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zeekool (seakale). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

merikaali (sea kale). (various references)

   

French

  

crambe maritime, crambe, chou marin. (various references)

   

German

  

Crambe (sea kale), Meerkohl (sea kale). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψευδοκράμβη η παράλιος (sea kale). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cavolo selvatico (sea kale), cavolo marino (sea kale), soldanella (sea kale), finocchio marino (samphire, sea fennel, sea kale), brassica marina (sea kale). (various references)

   

Manx

  

caayl gyn cree. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olewortcay

   

Portuguese

  

couve marinha (sea kale). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

c l (cabbage, kail, kale : c l ceirtleach). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

col maritima (sea kale), col marina (sea kale). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

strandkål (sea kale). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Colewort

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Crambe maritima, eruca, erucae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Colewort

Derivations

Words beginning with "colewort": coleworts. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Colewort

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-o-r-t-w"

-1 letter: cowrote.

-2 letters: colter, cooler, cooter, lector, looter, ocelot, retool, tooler, trowel, wooler.

-3 letters: ceorl, cloot, color, cooer, cower, lower, owlet, recto, rowel, towel, tower, wooer, wrote.

-4 letters: celt, cero, clew, clot, cole, colt, cool, coot, core, cote, cowl, crew, crow, loco, loot, lore, lowe, oleo, orle, role, root, rote, rotl, roto, tole, tool, torc.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-o-r-t-w"
 

+1 letter: coleworts.

 

+2 letters: watercolor.

 

+3 letters: blowtorches, counterblow, counterflow, watercolors, watercooler.

 

+4 letters: counterblows, counterflows, counterworld, watercoolers.

 

+5 letters: counterworlds, watercolorist.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Colewort


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

43 6F 6C 65 77 6F 72 74

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)

01000011 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 0065 0077 006F 0072 0074

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

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

3781787189818486

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INDEX

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


  

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