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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LAPILLUS

Latin: little stone.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LAPILLUS

lapillus  [ləˈpɪləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAPILLUS

noun
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lapillus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LAPILLUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lapillus in the English dictionary

The definition of lapillus in the dictionary is a small piece of lava thrown from a volcano.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LAPILLUS


acidophilus
ˌæsɪˈdɒfɪləs
Angelus
ˈændʒɪləs
aspergillus
ˌæspəˈdʒɪləs
bacillus
bəˈsɪləs
cancellous
ˈkænsɪləs
erysipelas
ˌɛrɪˈsɪpɪləs
eyeless
ˈaɪləs
killas
ˈkɪləs
lactobacillus
ˌlæktəʊbəˈsɪləs
malus
ˈmeɪləs
microvillous
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈvɪləs
microvillus
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈvɪləs
nautilus
ˈnɔːtɪləs
papillous
pəˈpɪləs
perilous
ˈpɛrɪləs
pilous
ˈpaɪləs
stylus
ˈstaɪləs
talus
ˈteɪləs
Theophilus
θɪˈɒfɪləs
villous
ˈvɪləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAPILLUS

lapidaries
lapidarist
lapidary
lapidate
lapidation
lapideous
lapidescence
lapidescent
lapidicolous
lapidific
lapidification
lapidified
lapidifies
lapidify
lapidist
lapilli
lapilliform
lapin
lapis
lapis lazuli

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAPILLUS

actinobacillus
arillus
callus
Catullus
comma bacillus
gallus
Lucullus
Marcellus
ocellus
phallus
pneumobacillus
pullus
pulvillus
streptobacillus
Tellus
thallus
thiobacillus
Tibullus
tubercle bacillus
villus

Synonyms and antonyms of lapillus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lapillus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAPILLUS

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The translations of lapillus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lapillus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

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Translator English - Russian

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Translator English - Portuguese

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Translator English - Bengali

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Translator English - French

lapilli
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Translator English - Malay

Lapillus
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Translator English - German

lapillus
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Translator English - Japanese

lapillus
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Translator English - Korean

lapillus
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Translator English - Javanese

Lapillus
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lapillus
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Translator English - Tamil

lapillus
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Translator English - Marathi

लॅपिटलस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lapillus
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lapilli
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Translator English - Polish

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Translator English - Ukrainian

lapillus
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Translator English - Romanian

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Translator English - Greek

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Translator English - Afrikaans

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Translator English - Swedish

lapillus
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Translator English - Norwegian

lapillus
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Trends of use of lapillus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAPILLUS»

The term «lapillus» is normally little used and occupies the 134.213 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAPILLUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lapillus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lapillus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lapillus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAPILLUS»

Discover the use of lapillus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lapillus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites
e Ulva Cave assemblage is also idiosyncratic in the proportion of dogwhelk ( Nucella lapillus) shells (> per- cent). N. lapillus is present in very small quantities at An Corran (ca. . percent) and virtually absent from Raschoille Cave (. percent)  ...
Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Sabine Eggers, 2014
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Oceanography and Marine Biology, An Annual Review
Nucella lapillus In the literature pertaining to the predation of barnacles this gastropod has been referred to as Purpura lapillus, Nucella lapillus and Thais lapillus. In order to avoid confusion the name Nucella lapillus is used in what follows.
Alan Ansell, R. N. Gibson, Margaret Barnes, 1999
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Organotin: Environmental Fate and Effects
Tributyltin in Scottish sea lochs, as indicated by degree of imposex in the dogwhelk, Nucella lapillus (L). Mar. Pollut. Bull., 18, 400-404. Feare, C.J. 1970a. Aspects of the ecology of an exposed shore population of dog whelks Nucella lapillus ...
Michael A. Champ, Peter F. Seligman, 1996
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Genetics and Evolution of Aquatic Organisms
Evolution, 35, 296-305. Bamock, C.R. and Cockayne, W.C. (1975) Chromosomal polymorphism in Nucella lapillus. Heredity, 34,231-45. Bantock, C.R. and Page, C.M. (1976) Chromosomal polymorphisms in the dog whelk (Nucella lapillus) ...
A. Beaumont, 1994
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Molecular Biomineralization: Aquatic Organisms Forming ...
Fish otolith is a kind of typical natural calcium carbonate biomineral, which is composed of a pair of lapillus, sagitta, and asteriscus, respectively, as shown in Fig. 6.2. Otoliths are involved in the perception of sound and the maintenance of  ...
W.E.G. Müller, 2011
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Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and ...
3. CASSIDARIA obtusa. Cassidaria obtusa, Brown's MSS. Buccinum obtusissimum, Adams in Linn. Trans. iii. pi. 13, fig. 9, 10. — Mont. Test. Brit. p. 251 . Fig. 4. PURPURA lapillus. Purpura lapillus, Lam. Syst. vii. p. 244. Buccinum lapillus, Mont.
Thomas Brown, 1827
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An Inquiry Into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional ...
Potamides intermedius Potamides laevissimus (Schloth.) Purpura lapillus Tapes decussatus Triton Trivia europea or Turritella communis Unio Fossil shell indet. Freshwater shell indet. Marine shell indet. 1 There are two types of errors which ...
‎1990
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Metal Ecotoxicology Concepts and Applications
"2-m In the U.K., populations of N. lapillus are most heavily affected on shores along the south coast of England where there are large numbers of harbors and marinas. Most populations exhibit moderate to high RPS indices and the majority  ...
Michael C. Newman, Alan W. McIntosh, 1991
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Effects of Encapsulated Development and Larval Dispersal on ...
Marine prosobranch gastropods are an ideal group to use for these studies because of the broad range of developmental types they exhibit. Both the mud snail Ilyanassa obsoleta and the dog whelk Nucella lapillus deposit their eggs in  ...
Steven Untersee, 2007
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Geologic Evolution of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South ...
Figure 10. Lapilli types. Scale bars in all photos are 0.5 mm long. A. Rounded lapillus containing chrome spinel-bearing (black squares) in olivine phenocrysts ( clear) replaced by quartz,. B, Mixed oxide-rich (dark) and oxide-poor (light) lapilli.
Donald R. Lowe, Gary R. Byerly, 1999

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAPILLUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lapillus is used in the context of the following news items.
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The environmental genomics of metazoan thermal adaptation
... 2011) and the putative coding sequences of hsp68 and hsp70 in Nucella lapillus (Chu et al., 2014). In addition, given that heat shock protein ... «Nature.com, Mar 15»
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LBO France, Maple Knoll buy Paris office portfolio
Its real estate arm, through its funds White Stone and Lapillus, has completed €1.8bn worth of deals. “These acquisitions illustrate our ambition ... «Property Investor Europe, Sep 14»
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Snails already live in fear; now they've got climate change to worry …
The study focused on Nucella Lapillus, a marine snail that makes up the middle of the food chain. These middle species have to balance their ... «Grist, Jul 14»
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Hot and bothered: climate change and the ecology of fear
They found that when a prey species, in this case a snail called Nucella Lapillus, sensed the chemical cues of a predator, the invasive green ... «News@Northeastern, Jun 14»
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Indonesia: Sinabung death toll rises to 15, maximum alert for three …
The situation precipitated over the weekend, when the volcano activity intensified to the point of eruptions of thick layers of ash, lapillus and ... «AsiaNews.it, Feb 14»
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Fewer Female Snail Penises
Nucella lapillus, one of the species affected by TBT.WIKIMEDIA, MARTIN TALBOTThe scientists who first discovered imposex more than two ... «Scientist, Jan 14»
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Marine Biological Association - 125 years on
The worst affected was the dog whelk, Nucella lapillus, which was rapidly becoming unable to reproduce and in some areas had even become ... «Planet Earth, Aug 10»
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Snail shells increase dramatically in size in less than 100 years
The most striking finding, which has not been reported previously in Nucella lapillus, the Atlantic dogwhelk, is that shell length increased at all ... «TopNews, Mar 09»

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