RUMA
First name RUMA's origin is Indian. RUMA means "myth name (queen of the apes)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RUMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ruma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Indian) with RUMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming RUMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RUMA AS A WHOLE:
charumati nkrumah truman nkrumaNAMES RHYMING WITH RUMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (uma) - Names That Ends with uma:
fatuma huma numa uma juma chuma aluma kuwanyauma suma yumaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama halima ifeoma mariama neema salama esma alima asima lama na'ima ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma neoma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma sarama sharama vema gulielma massima roma donoma kimama poloma shima adima lema tessema usama jorma soma adharma algoma alma arama delma dharma dreama elma ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nakoma nehama okimma oma paloma purisima salma saloma selima sima tama telma temima velma wilma winema yarimaNAMES RHYMING WITH RUMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rum) - Names That Begins with rum:
rumfordRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ru) - Names That Begins with ru:
ruadhagan ruadhan ruadson ruaidhri ruairidh ruanaidh ruarc ruark ruben rubie ruby ruck rudd ruddy rudella rudelle rudiger rudo rudrani rudy rudyard rueban ruelle rufa ruff ruffe rufford rufina rufio rufo ruford rugby ruhdugeard ruhleah rui rukan rule rune runihura ruodrik ruomhildi rupert rupetta rupette ruprecht ruqaya ruqayyah rusalka rush rushe rushford rushkin russ russel russell russu rust rusty ruta rute rutger ruth rutherford ruthie rutledge rutley ruusu ruwaydah ruzaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUMA:
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 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 risa rita ritsa ritza riva rivka roana robena roberta robertia robina robinetta roderica roderiga roderika rodica rodika roesia roka rolanda roldanaEnglish Words Rhyming RUMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RUMA AS A WHOLE:
antistrumatic | noun (n.) A medicine for scrofula. |
adjective (a.) Antistrumous. |
brumaire | noun (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire. |
brumal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to winter. |
quadrumana | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. |
noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. |
quadrumane | noun (n.) One of the Quadrumana. |
noun (n.) One of the Quadrumana. |
quadrumanous | adjective (a.) Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana. |
adjective (a.) Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana. |
struma | noun (n.) Scrofula. |
noun (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses. |
strumatic | adjective (a.) Scrofulous; strumous. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RUMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (uma) - English Words That Ends with uma:
amphiuma | noun (n.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
cauma | noun (n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever. |
curcuma | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
empyreuma | noun (n.) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels. |
encauma | noun (n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. |
lucuma | noun (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
paguma | noun (n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form. |
pluma | noun (n.) A feather. |
puma | noun (n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter. |
tucuma | noun (n.) A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RUMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rum) - Words That Begins with rum:
rum | noun (n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. |
noun (n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. | |
adjective (a.) Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. |
rumble | noun (n.) A noisy report; rumor. |
noun (n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train. | |
noun (n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. | |
noun (n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. | |
verb (v. i.) To murmur; to ripple. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4. |
rumbler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rumbles. |
rumbo | noun (n.) Grog. |
rumbowline | noun (n.) Same as Rombowline. |
rumen | noun (n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below. |
noun (n.) The cud of a ruminant. |
rumicin | noun (n.) A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid. |
ruminal | adjective (a.) Ruminant; ruminating. |
ruminant | noun (n.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia. |
adjective (a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia. |
ruminantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies. |
ruminating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruminate |
ruminate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ruminated |
verb (v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. | |
verb (v. i.) To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. | |
verb (v. t.) To chew over again. | |
verb (v. t.) To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. |
ruminated | adjective (a.) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Ruminate |
rumination | noun (n.) The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. |
noun (n.) The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection. | |
noun (n.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man. |
ruminative | adjective (a.) Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation. |
ruminator | noun (n.) One who ruminates or muses; a meditator. |
rumkin | noun (n.) A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. |
rummage | noun (n.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. |
noun (n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over. | |
verb (v. t.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage. | |
verb (v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf. | |
verb (v. i.) To search a place narrowly. |
rummaging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rummage |
rummager | noun (n.) One who rummages. |
noun (n.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. |
rummer | noun (n.) A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. |
rummy | noun (n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor. | |
adjective (a.) Strange; odd. |
rumney | noun (n.) A sort of Spanish wine. |
rumor | noun (n.) A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety. |
noun (n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified. | |
noun (n.) A prolonged, indistinct noise. | |
verb (v. t.) To report by rumor; to tell. |
rumoring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumor |
rumorer | noun (n.) A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. |
rumorous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. |
adjective (a.) Famous; notorious. | |
adjective (a.) Murmuring. |
rump | noun (n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks. |
noun (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef. | |
noun (n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant. |
rumper | noun (n.) A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament. |
rumpling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumple |
rumple | noun (n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle. |
verb (v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. |
rumpled | adjective (a.) Wrinkled; crumpled. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Rumple |
rumpless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a rump. |
rumply | adjective (a.) Rumpled. |
rumpus | noun (n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. |
rumseller | noun (n.) One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUMA:
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. |
reticulosa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
rostra | noun (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2. |
(pl. ) of Rostrum |
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. |
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. |
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. |