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Tall-growing

Definition: Tall-growing

Tall-growing

Adjective

1. (of plants) having tall spindly stems.

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

Date "tall-growing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Synonym: Tall-growing

Synonym: leggy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tall-growing

English words defined with "tall-growing": American white pineColorado River hempeastern white pinelima bean, lima bean plantPhaseolus limensis, Pinus strobusSesbania exaltataweymouth pine. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Tall-growing

"Tall-growing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tall-growing" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tall-growing

Language Translations for "tall-growing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

高"长. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

키 크 성장. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

all-growingtay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

högväxande. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tall-growing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: tallowing.

-3 letters: allowing, antiroll, garoting, gloating, growling, trawling, trigonal, trolling.

-4 letters: airglow, antilog, argling, galling, galliot, gaoling, gigaton, gingall, glaring, glowing, goaling, gorilla, grating, growing, litoral, orating, ringtaw, rolling, tolling, trowing, walling.

-5 letters: aroint, galiot, gallon, gating, giglot, gingal, gitano, gloria, goring, gratin, gringo, inwall, latigo, latino, lawing, lintol, loggia, lowing, oaring, ogling, onagri, origan, raging, rating, ration, ratlin, rialto, rowing, tailor, talion, tallow, taring, tawing, tiglon, toling, towing, trigon, trinal, waggon, waging, waling, waring.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tall-growing


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

54 61 6C 6C 2D 67 72 6F 77 69 6E 67

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

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

01010100 01100001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100111 01110010 01101111 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#103 &#114 &#111 &#119 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006C 006C 002D 0067 0072 006F 0077 0069 006E 0067

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

546778781573848189758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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