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PHYTELEPHAS SEEMANNII

Specialty Definition: PHYTELEPHAS SEEMANNII

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Botanical

The young nuts have a potable jelly-like liquid (!). This gradually hardens into vegetable ivory used for making buttons and other ornaments. A thin crust around the ivory is occasionally brought into the market in San Blas as a food (!). The leaves are occasionally used for thatch in Colombia (!). (references)

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

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Crosswords: PHYTELEPHAS SEEMANNII

Non-English Usage: "PHYTELEPHAS SEEMANNII" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Cook: Ivory palm).

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Alternative Orthography: PHYTELEPHAS SEEMANNII


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

50 48 59 54 45 4C 45 50 48 41 53      53 45 45 4D 41 4E 4E 49 49

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

    

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

01010000 01001000 01011001 01010100 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010000 01001000 01000001 01010011 00100000 01010011 01000101 01000101 01001101 01000001 01001110 01001110 01001001 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#89 &#84 &#69 &#76 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#65 &#83 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#69 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#78 &#73 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 0059 0054 0045 004C 0045 0050 0048 0041 0053      0053 0045 0045 004D 0041 004E 004E 0049 0049

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

50425954394639504235532533939473548484343

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