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Skunk Cabbage

Definition: Skunk Cabbage

Skunk Cabbage

Noun

1. Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe.

2. Clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe.

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


Synonyms: Skunk Cabbage

Synonyms: foetid pothos (n), polecat weed (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Skunk Cabbage

English words defined with "skunk cabbage": genus Lysichiton, genus Lysichitum, genus SymplocarpusLysichiton, LysichitumSymplocarpus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Skunk Cabbage

DomainTitle

Books

  • Skunk Cabbage, Sundew Plants and Strangler Figs: And 18 More of the Strangest Plants on Earth (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Skunk Cabbage

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Skunk Cabbage. Credit: T. Hogervorst.

Yellow Skunk Cabbage (Lysichitum americanum) found at Three Horn Campground along Tiller Highway. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Skunk cabbage, ferns and alders keep this farmer in the hills hard at work as he attempts to clear an abandoned homestead. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Skunk Cabbage

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

skunk cabbage

38
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Skunk Cabbage

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

水芭蕉 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

みずばしょう. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Skunk Cabbage

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Andira inermis, Barathra brassicae, Brassica oleracea convar. capitata var. rubra, Brassica oleracea convar.acephala var.arborea, Brassica oleracea convar.capitata var.rubra, Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata alba, Brassica spp., Eurydema oleraceum, Eurydema ornata, Mamestra brassicae, Mustelidae, Pieris brassicae, Pistia stratiotes L., Plutella maculipennis, Plutella xylostella, Rosa centifolia, Sabal palmetto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Skunk Cabbage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-e-g-k-k-n-s-u"

-3 letters: buckbeans.

-4 letters: beanbags, buckbean, bugbanes, cabbages, kebbucks.

-5 letters: askance, beanbag, bugbane, cabbage, cangues, cubages, guanase, kebbuck, sunback, uncages, uncakes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Skunk Cabbage


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

53 6B 75 6E 6B      43 61 62 62 61 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010011 01101011 01110101 01101110 01101011 00100000 01000011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#107 &#117 &#110 &#107 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#98 &#98 &#97 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006B 0075 006E 006B      0043 0061 0062 0062 0061 0067 0065

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

5377878077237676868677371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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