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Definition: Skunk Cabbage |
Skunk CabbageNoun1. 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 CabbageSynonyms: foetid pothos (n), polecat weed (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Skunk Cabbage |
| English words defined with "skunk cabbage": genus Lysichiton, genus Lysichitum, genus Symplocarpus ♦ Lysichiton, Lysichitum ♦ Symplocarpus. (references) |
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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. | ||
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
skunk cabbage | 38 |
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| 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 | unkskay abbagecay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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) |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 75 6E 6B      43 61 62 62 61 67 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01110101 01101110 01101011 00100000 01000011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k u n k   C a b b a g e |
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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