Rhodochrosite () Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.

Rhodocrinite () A rose encrinite.

Rhododendron () A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.

Rhodomontade () See Rodomontade.

Rhodomontader () See Rodomontador.

Rhodonite () Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.

Rhodophane () The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

Rhodopsin () The visual purple. See under Visual.

Rhodosperm () Any seaweed with red spores.

Rhomb () An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.

Rhomb () A rhombohedron.

Rhombic () Shaped like a rhomb.

Rhombic () Same as Orthorhombic.

Rhomboganoid () A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.

Rhomboganoidei () Same as Ginglymodi.

Rhombogene () A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata.

Rhombohedral () Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.

Rhombohedric () Rhombohedral.

Rhombohedron () A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

Rhomboid () An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.

Rhomboid () Same as Rhomboidal.

Rhomboidal () Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.

Rhomboides () A rhomboid.

Rhomboid-ovate () Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.

Rhomb spar () A variety of dolomite.

Rhombus () Same as Rhomb, 1.

Rhonchal () Rhonchial.

Rhonchial () Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.

Rhonchisonant () Making a snorting noise; snorting.

Rhonchi () of Rhonchus

Rhonchus () 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.

Rhopalic () Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

Rhopalia () of Rhopalium

Rhopalium () One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.

Rhopalocera () A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.

Rhotacism () 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.

Rhubarb () The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.

Rhubarb () 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.

Rhubarb () The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.

Rhubarby () Like rhubarb.

Rhumb () A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.

Rhus () A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac.

Rhusma () A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.

Rhyme () An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

Rhyme () 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.

Rhyme () Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

Rhyme () A word answering in sound to another word.

Rhymed () of Rhyme

Rhyming () of Rhyme

Rhyme () To make rhymes, or verses.

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