One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

A rootlike appendage.

Same as Rhizome.

Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.

A rootstock, such as one of an iris. See Rootstock.

A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

Feeding on roots; root-eating.

A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove.

Bearing roots.

One of the Rhizopoda.

An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Am/bea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.

Of or pertaining to the rhizopods.

A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

One of the Rhizostomata.

The arrangement of the roots of plants.

See 1st Rob.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.

A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.

Same as Convolvuln.

Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean. A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.

Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium.

A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.

Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.

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

A rose encrinite.

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

See Rodomontade.

See Rodomontador.

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

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

The visual purple. See under Visual.

Any seaweed with red spores.

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.

Shaped like a rhomb.

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

Same as Ginglymodi.

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

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.

Rhombohedral.

A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

Same as Rhomboidal.

Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.

Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.

A rhomboid.

Same as Rhomb, 1.

Rhonchial.

Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.

Making a snorting noise; snorting.

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 r/le in its widest sense. See R/le.

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

One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.

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

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.

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

Like rhubarb.

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

A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac.

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

To put into rhyme.

One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.

The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.

A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.

Pertaining to rhyme.

A rhymer; a rhymester.

A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.

An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.

Same as Nemertina.

A fossil cephalopod beak.

A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil.

A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.

One of the Rhynchophora.

Same as Hemiptera.

A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.

In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

An instrument, acting on the principle of Pitot's tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc.

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm

In a rhythmical manner.

The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.

Writing rhythm; verse making.

Being without rhythm.

An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

Rhythm.

See Rytina.

A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.

Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.

To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.

Like a ribald.

Of a ribald quality.

The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.

See Ribbon.

See Rib-band.

Ribboned.

A ribald.

An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.

Filthy; obscene; ribald.

Ribaldry.

Ribaldry.

A ribald.

A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework.

Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.

A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec.

A small threestringed viol; a rebec.

Having no ribs.

To beat soundly.

A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.

Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.

The Java sparrow. The bobolink.

To enrich.

That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.