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South-american

Definition: South-american

South-american

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America and their peoples.

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


Synonyms: South-american

Synonyms by domain: Amazonian manatee (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), american grasshopper, american locust, Anglo-South American (finance), Chilean pilchard (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), common nandu (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), common rhea, La Plata otter, Peruvian sardine (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), rain tree (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), saman tree, South American acacia, South American fur seal (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), South American harpy eagle (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), south american locust, South American manatee, South American ostrich, south american palm oil (food & agriculture), South American pilchard (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), South American river turtle (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), South American rock mussel (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), South American sea lion, South American tapir (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), South-American otter.

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Usage Frequency: South-american

"South-american" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "South-american" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: South-american

Language Translations for "south-american"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

南美. (various references)

   

Danish

  

odder fra Sydmarika (La Plata otter, South-American otter). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

La-Plata-visotter (La Plata otter, South-American otter), langstaartotter (La Plata otter, South-American otter). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

eteläamerikkalainen. (various references)

   

French

  

loutre de la Plata (South-American otter), loutre longue queue (South-American otter). (various references)

   

German

  

la-Plata-Otter (La Plata otter, South-American otter). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νοτιοαμερικάνικη βίδρα των ποταμών (La Plata otter, South-American otter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

platensis/annectens (La Plata otter, South-American otter). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outh-americansay

   

Portuguese

  

lontra de cauda comprida (La Plata otter, South-American otter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

южноамериканский (south american). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: South-american

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Arctocephalus australis, Harpia harpyja, Lutra longicaudis, Lutra platensis, Otaria byronia, Otaria flavescens, Perna perna, Pithecellobium dulce, Pithecolobium saman, Podocnemis, Rhea americana, Sardinops sagax, Schistocerca americana, Schistocerca paranensis, Tapirus terrestris, Trichechus inunguis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: South-american

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: euchromatins.

-2 letters: aeronautics, euchromatin, macerations, machinators, oceanariums.

-3 letters: aeronautic, amateurish, anchorites, antechoirs, autarchies, chromatins, cremations, euthanasic, harmonicas, hematurias, housetrain, macaronies, maceration, machinates, machinator, manticores, maraschino, monarchies, monarchist, naumachies, nomarchies, oceanarium, outmarches, raunchiest, rheumatics, sanatorium, unactorish.

-4 letters: achromats, aconitums, actuaries, acuminate, aerations, aeronauts, amaurotic, anarchies, anarchism, anarchist, anatomies, anatomise, anchorets, anchorite, animaters, animators, anoretics, antechoir.

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

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Alternative Orthography: South-american


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

53 6F 75 74 68 2D 61 6D 65 72 69 63 61 6E

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

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

01010011 01101111 01110101 01110100 01101000 00101101 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#116 &#104 &#45 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 0074 0068 002D 0061 006D 0065 0072 0069 0063 0061 006E

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

5381878674156779718475696780

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INDEX

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


  

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