Name Report For First Name ROSA:
ROSA
First name ROSA's origin is German. ROSA means "noted protector". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ROSA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rosa.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with ROSA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ROSA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ROSA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ROSA AS A WHOLE:
arrosa rosalie anarosa generosa milagrosa rosaleen rosalind rosalinda rosalinde rosamaria rosamonde rosana rosario rosalia rosanne rosamundNAMES RHYMING WITH ROSA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (osa) - Names That Ends with osa:
hermosa melosa moosa ambrotosaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (sa) - Names That Ends with sa:
kissa mandisa nagesa nigesa tisa xetsa zinsa hessa melissa atisa tasa welsa liisa marphisa anassa arethusa charissa creusa inesa larissa marpessa medusa narkissa neysa nitsa nysa odessa phaethusa ritsa thalassa ursa venessa marcsa zsa angirasa kailasa khasa adalgisa luisa teresa hisa awenasa cha'risa kasa omusa adisa idrissa issa kassa musa palassa wekesa ebissa forsa risa chafulumisa deorsa ailisa ailsa aldonsa alfonsa alisa alissa allyssa alonsa alysa alyssa amarisa amarissa aneesa anessa anissa annalisa annelisa annissa anyssa azusa beatrisa blasa brisa brissa bryssa calissa caressa carisa carissa carressa charlisa chelsa cherisa chitsa claressa clarisa clarissa clarrisa corissaNAMES RHYMING WITH ROSA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ros) - Names That Begins with ros:
ros roschelle rosco roscoe rose roselin roselyn rosem rosemaria rosemarie rosemary rosemonde rosemunda rosetta roshan roshin rosiyn roslin roslyn ross rosselin rosselyn rossiter rosston rosswald rostislav roswal roswald roswalt roswellRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ro) - Names That Begins with ro:
roald roan roana roane roanne roano roark rob robb robbie robbin robby robena robert roberta robertia roberto robertson robin robina robinetta robinette roble robynne roch roche rochelle rocio rock rocke rockford rockland rockwell rocky rod rodas rodd roddric roddrick roddy rodel rodell roderic roderica roderick roderiga roderigo roderik roderika rodes rodger rodica rodika rodman rodney rodolfo rodor rodric rodrick rodrigo rodrik rodwell roe roel roesia rogan rogelio roger rohais rohanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ROSA:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
radella radhiya radhwa radwa raedbora raena rafa rafela raimunda raina rainaa raissa raja rakanja raluca rama ramira ramla ramona rana ranica raniesha ranita raphaella rasha rasheeda rashida rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya reba rebecca rebecka rechavia reda reema reeya regina rehema reina reinha relia rena renata reta retta reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rheta rhianna rhoda rhonda ria rica ricadonna ricarda ricca ricwea rida ridha rihana riikka rikka rilla rilletta rillia rima rimona rina rinna riona rita ritza riva rivka roka rolanda roldana roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rona ronia rowa rowena roxana roxannaEnglish Words Rhyming ROSA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ROSA AS A WHOLE:
| amorosa | noun (n.) A wanton woman; a courtesan. |
| aporosa | noun (n. pl.) A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata. |
| hadrosaurus | noun (n.) An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation. |
| hydrosalt | noun (n.) A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base. |
| noun (n.) An acid salt. | |
| noun (n.) A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization. |
| morosaurus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America. |
| nitrosalicylic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid. |
| petrosal | noun (n.) A petrosal bone. |
| noun (n.) The auditory capsule. | |
| adjective (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone. |
| prosaic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Prosaical |
| prosaical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. |
| adjective (a.) Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. |
| prosaicism | noun (n.) The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. |
| prosaism | noun (n.) That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner. |
| prosaist | noun (n.) A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer. |
| prosal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. |
| proterosaurus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus. |
| pterosaur | noun (n.) A pterodactyl. |
| pterosauria | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria. |
| pterosaurian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria. |
| rosaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces. |
| adjective (a.) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla. | |
| adjective (a.) Of a pure purpish pink color. |
| rosacic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric. |
| rosalgar | noun (n.) realgar. |
| rosalia | noun (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence. |
| rosaniline | noun (n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper. |
| rosarian | noun (n.) A cultivator of roses. |
| rosary | noun (n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. |
| noun (n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted. | |
| noun (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections. | |
| noun (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny. |
| sacrosanct | adjective (a.) Sacred; inviolable. |
| sporosac | noun (n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata. |
| noun (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia. |
| urosacral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to both the caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column; as, the urosacral vertebrae of birds. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ROSA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (osa) - English Words That Ends with osa:
| annulosa | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only. |
| bosa | noun (n.) A drink, used in the East. See Boza. |
| gloriosa | noun (n.) A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India. |
| keratosa | noun (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges. |
| lobosa | noun (n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba. |
| margosa | noun (n.) A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. |
| mimosa | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica). |
| reticulosa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia. |
| rugosa | noun (n. pl.) An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid. |
| siliquosa | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ROSA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ros) - Words That Begins with ros:
| roscid | adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy. |
| roscoelite | noun (n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium. |
| rose | noun (n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere |
| noun (n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. | |
| noun (n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below. | |
| noun (n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump. | |
| noun (n.) The erysipelas. | |
| noun (n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments. | |
| noun (n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink. | |
| noun (n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perfume, as with roses. | |
| (imp.) of Rise | |
| () imp. of Rise. |
| roseal | adjective (a.) resembling a rose in smell or color. |
| roseate | adjective (a.) Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers. |
| adjective (a.) resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. |
| rosebay | noun (n.) the oleander. |
| noun (n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron. | |
| noun (n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb. |
| rosebud | noun (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open. |
| rosebush | noun (n.) The bush or shrub which bears roses. |
| rosedrop | noun (n.) A lozenge having a rose flavor. |
| noun (n.) A kind of earring. | |
| noun (n.) A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom. |
| rosefinch | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red. |
| rosefish | noun (n.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt. |
| rosehead | noun (n.) See Rose, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head. |
| roseine | noun (n.) See Magenta. |
| roselite | noun (n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite. |
| rosella | noun (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow. |
| roselle | noun (n.) a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink. |
| rosemaloes | noun (n.) The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis. |
| rosemary | noun (n.) A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. |
| rosen | adjective (a.) Consisting of roses; rosy. |
| roseola | noun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. |
| roser | noun (n.) A rosier; a rosebush. |
| roseroot | noun (n.) A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses. |
| rosery | noun (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1. |
| roset | noun (n.) A red color used by painters. |
| rosette | noun (n.) An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge. |
| noun (n.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration. | |
| noun (n.) A red color. See Roset. | |
| noun (n.) A rose burner. See under Rose. | |
| noun (n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand. | |
| noun (n.) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard. |
| rosewood | noun (n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. |
| roseworm | noun (n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds. |
| rosewort | noun (n.) Roseroot. |
| noun (n.) Any plant nearly related to the rose. |
| rosicrucian | noun (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts. |
| rosied | adjective (a.) Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses. |
| rosier | noun (n.) A rosebush; roses, collectively. |
| rosin | noun (n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony. |
| verb (v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin. |
| rosiness | noun (n.) The quality of being rosy. |
| rosinweed | noun (n.) The compass plant. See under Compass. |
| noun (n.) A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell. |
| rosiny | adjective (a.) like rosin, or having its qualities. |
| rosland | noun (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land. |
| rosmarine | noun (n.) Dew from the sea; sea dew. |
| noun (n.) Rosemary. | |
| noun (n.) A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew. |
| rosolic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin. |
| ross | noun (n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees. |
| verb (v. t.) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark. |
| rossel | noun (n.) Light land; rosland. |
| rosselly | adjective (a.) Loose; light. |
| rost | noun (n.) See Roust. |
| rostel | noun (n.) same as Rostellum. |
| rostellar | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a rostellum. |
| rostellate | adjective (a.) Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak. |
| rostelliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak. |
| rostellum | noun (n.) A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm. |
| roster | noun (n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve. |
| rostra | noun (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2. |
| (pl. ) of Rostrum |
| rostral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ROSA:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
| raca | adjective (a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." |
| rachialgia | noun (n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic. |
| rachilla | noun (n.) Same as Rhachilla. |
| racoonda | noun (n.) The coypu. |
| radiata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. |
| radiolaria | noun (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina. |
| radula | noun (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore. |
| raffia | noun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. |
| rafflesia | noun (n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet. |
| raghuvansa | noun (n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty. |
| raia | noun (n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate. |
| raja | noun (n.) Same as Rajah. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| ramenta | noun (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. |
| rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
| ranula | noun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland. |
| rata | noun (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs. |
| ratafia | noun (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc. |
| ravenala | noun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana. |
| razzia | noun (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid. |
| reata | noun (n.) A lariat. |
| redia | noun (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| redowa | noun (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use. |
| regalia | noun (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc. | |
| noun (n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed. |
| regatta | noun (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races. |
| regma | noun (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle. |
| regularia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. |
| rejectamenta | noun (n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. |
| remora | noun (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance. |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. |
| replica | noun (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original. |
| noun (v. & n.) Repetition. |
| reptantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata. |
| reptilia | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds. |
| reseda | noun (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette. |
| noun (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette. |
| respondentia | noun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. |
| reticularia | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell. |
| retina | noun (n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye. |
| retinophora | noun (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| retinula | noun (n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| rhabdocoela | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine. |
| rhabdophora | noun (n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities. |
| rhabdopleura | noun (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata |
| rhachialgia | noun (n.) See Rachialgia. |
| rhachiglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append. |
| rhachilla | noun (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses. |
| rhamphotheca | noun (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds. |
| rhea | noun (n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass. |
| noun (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich. |
| rhinoscleroma | noun (n.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat. |
| rhinotheca | noun (n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird. |
| rhipidoglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| rhizocephala | noun (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix. |
| rhizoma | noun (n.) SAme as Rhizome. |
| rhizophaga | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type. |
| rhizophora | noun (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove. |
| rhizopoda | noun (n. pl.) 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. |
| rhizostomata | noun (n. pl.) 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. |
| rhopalocera | noun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae. |
| rhusma | noun (n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides. |
| rhynchobdellea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type. |
| rhynchocephala | noun (n. pl.) 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. |
| rhynchocoela | noun (n. pl.) Same as Nemertina. |
| rhynchonella | noun (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil. |
| rhynchophora | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils. |
| rhynchota | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hemiptera. |
| rhytina | noun (n.) See Rytina. |
| rima | noun (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure. |
| robinia | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia). |
| rocoa | noun (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto. |
| rodentia | adjective (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. |
| romanza | noun (n.) See Romance, 5. |
| rondeletia | noun (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers. |
| rostrifera | noun (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile. |
| rota | noun (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members. |
| noun (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament. | |
| noun (n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta. |
| rotatoria | noun (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera. |
| rotella | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas. |
| rotifera | noun (n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits. |
| rotta | noun (n.) See Rota. |
| rotula | noun (n.) The patella, or kneepan. |
| rotunda | adjective (a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. |
| rubella | noun (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles. |
| rubeola | noun (n.) the measles. |
| noun (n.) Rubella. |
| ruga | noun (n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach. |
| ruminantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies. |
| rupia | noun (n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust. |
| rupicola | noun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock. |
| rusma | noun (n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma. |
| russia | noun (n.) A country of Europe and Asia. |
| russophobia | noun (n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence. |
| rytina | noun (n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. |
| rancheria | noun (n.) A dwelling place of a ranchero. |
| noun (n.) A small settlement or collection of ranchos, or rude huts, esp. for Indians. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes. |
| residencia | noun (n.) In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor. |
| rudbeckia | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows. |
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