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- English Word Rhomboid Definition An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.
- English Word Rhomboid Definition Same as Rhomboidal.
- English Word Rhomboid-ovate Definition Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.
- English Word Rhomboidal Definition Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.
- English Word Rhomboides Definition A rhomboid.
- English Word Rhombus Definition Same as Rhomb, 1.
- English Word Rhonchal Definition Rhonchial.
- English Word Rhonchi Definition of Rhonchus
- English Word Rhonchial Definition Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.
- English Word Rhonchisonant Definition Making a snorting noise; snorting.
- English Word Rhonchus Definition An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.
- English Word Rhopalia Definition of Rhopalium
- English Word Rhopalic Definition Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.
- English Word Rhopalium Definition One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.
- English Word Rhopalocera Definition A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.
- English Word Rhotacism Definition An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.
- English Word Rhubarb Definition The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.
- English Word Rhubarb Definition The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.
- English Word Rhubarb Definition The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.
- English Word Rhubarby Definition Like rhubarb.
- English Word Rhumb Definition A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.
- English Word Rhus Definition A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac.
- English Word Rhusma Definition A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.
- English Word Rhyme Definition An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
- English Word Rhyme Definition Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.
- English Word Rhyme Definition Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
- English Word Rhyme Definition A word answering in sound to another word.
- English Word Rhyme Definition To make rhymes, or verses.
- English Word Rhyme Definition To accord in rhyme or sound.
- English Word Rhyme Definition To put into rhyme.