Name Report For First Name ROMA:
ROMA
First name ROMA's origin is Europe. ROMA means "from rome". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ROMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of roma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with ROMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ROMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ROMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ROMA AS A WHOLE:
andromache romanitza roman romano romana romaine romainNAMES RHYMING WITH ROMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (oma) - Names That Ends with oma:
ifeoma neoma donoma poloma soma algoma nakoma oma paloma saloma thoma teoma thenoma leoma fomaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama fatuma halima mariama neema salama esma alima asima huma lama na'ima numa ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma ruma sarama sharama uma vema gulielma massima kimama shima adima juma lema tessema usama chuma jorma adharma alma aluma arama delma dharma dreama elma ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nehama okimma purisima salma selima sima suma tama telma temimaNAMES RHYMING WITH ROMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rom) - Names That Begins with rom:
romeo romhild romhilda romhilde romia romil romilda romilde romina romneyRhyming 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 rohan rohon roi roial roibeard roibin rois roka roland rolanda rolande rolando roldan roldana rolf rolfe rollan rolland rollie rollo ronNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ROMA:
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 rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxana roxanna rozaEnglish Words Rhyming ROMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ROMA AS A WHOLE:
| achromatic | adjective (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors. |
| adjective (a.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. |
| achromaticity | noun (n.) Achromatism. |
| achromatin | noun (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. |
| achromatism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. |
| achromatization | noun (n.) The act or process of achromatizing. |
| achromatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achromatize |
| achromatopsy | noun (n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism. |
| acritochromacy | noun (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy. |
| aeromancy | noun (n.) Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather. |
| alectoromachy | noun (n.) Cockfighting. |
| alectoromancy | noun (n.) See Alectryomancy. |
| aleuromancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of flour. |
| aroma | noun (n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius. |
| aromatic | noun (n.) A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Aromatical |
| aromatical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam. |
| aromatization | noun (n.) The act of impregnating or secting with aroma. |
| aromatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aromatize |
| aromatizer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic. |
| aromatous | adjective (a.) Aromatic. |
| astromantic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. |
| atheroma | noun (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter. |
| noun (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. |
| atheromatous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma. |
| austromancy | noun (n.) Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds. |
| achromatous | adjective (a.) Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood. |
| apochromatic | adjective (a.) Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. |
| baromacrometer | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant. |
| bichromate | noun (n.) A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate. |
| broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
| noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
| bromal | noun (n.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol. |
| bromate | noun (n.) A salt of bromic acid. |
| verb (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor. |
| bromatologist | noun (n.) One versed in the science of foods. |
| bromatology | noun (n.) The science of aliments. |
| bromalin | noun (n.) A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy. |
| bromanil | noun (n.) A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine. |
| catoptromancy | noun (n.) A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable. |
| ceroma | noun (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans. |
| noun (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves. | |
| noun (n.) The cere of birds. |
| ceromancy | noun (n.) Divination by dropping melted wax in water. |
| chiromancer | noun (n.) One who practices chiromancy. |
| chiromancy | noun (n.) The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry. |
| chiromanist | noun (n.) Alt. of Chiromantist |
| chiromantist | noun (n.) A chiromancer. |
| chiromantic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Chiromantical |
| chiromantical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to chiromancy. |
| chondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth. |
| chromascope | noun (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color. |
| chromate | noun (n.) A salt of chromic acid. |
| chromatic | adjective (a.) Relating to color, or to colors. |
| adjective (a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale. |
| chromatical | adjective (a.) Chromatic. |
| chromatics | noun (n.) The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ROMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (oma) - English Words That Ends with oma:
| aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
| angioma | noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels. |
| noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood or lymph vessels. |
| adenoma | noun (n.) A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. |
| adipoma | noun (n.) A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. |
| branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
| carcinoma | noun (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. |
| chiloma | noun (n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel. |
| chilostoma | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Chilostomata |
| coma | noun (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus. |
| noun (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. | |
| noun (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. |
| condyloma | noun (n.) Alt. of Condylome |
| croma | noun (n.) A quaver. |
| cyclostoma | noun (n. pl.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures. |
| coloboma | noun (n.) A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft. |
| diploma | noun (n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution. |
| distoma | noun (n.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2. |
| enchondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. |
| endostoma | noun (n.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea. |
| epistoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Epistome |
| epithelioma | noun (n.) A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer. |
| fibroma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue. |
| glaucoma | noun (n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball. |
| glioma | noun (n.) A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system. |
| gnathostoma | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. |
| gyroma | noun (n.) A turning round. |
| hematoma | noun (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin. |
| hydrosoma | noun (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds. |
| hypostoma | noun (n.) The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc. |
| leucoma | noun (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo. |
| lipoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. |
| loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
| lymphadenoma | noun (n.) See Lymphoma. |
| lymphoma | noun (n.) A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma. |
| melastoma | noun (n.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth. |
| menopoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Menopome |
| metastoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Metastome |
| myoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of muscular tissue. |
| myxoma | noun (n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord. |
| melanoma | noun (n.) A tumor containing dark pigment. |
| noun (n.) Development of dark-pigmented tumors. |
| neuroma | noun (n.) A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers. |
| noma | noun (n.) See Canker, n., 1. |
| oreosoma | noun (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface. |
| osteoma | noun (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone. |
| osteosarcoma | noun (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone. |
| papilloma | noun (n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. |
| pelioma | noun (n.) A livid ecchymosis. |
| noun (n.) See Peliom. |
| perisoma | noun (n.) Same as Perisome. |
| peristoma | noun (n.) Same as Peristome. |
| phyllosoma | noun (n.) The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp. |
| pleurotoma | noun (n.) Any marine gastropod belonging to Pleurotoma, and ether allied genera of the family Pleurotmidae. The species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit. |
| prosoma | noun (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ROMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rom) - Words That Begins with rom:
| romage | noun (n. & v.) See Rummage. |
| romaic | noun (n.) The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language. |
| roman | noun (n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred. |
| noun (n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion. | |
| adjective (a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters. | |
| adjective (a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc. |
| romance | noun (n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like. |
| noun (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance. | |
| noun (n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance. | |
| noun (n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages). | |
| noun (n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. |
| romancing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romance |
| romancer | noun (n.) One who romances. |
| romancist | noun (n.) A romancer. |
| romancy | adjective (a.) Romantic. |
| romanesque | noun (n.) Romanesque style. |
| adjective (a.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. |
| romanic | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. |
| noun (n.) Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues. |
| romanish | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Romanism. |
| romanism | noun (n.) The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion. |
| romanist | noun (n.) One who adheres to Romanism. |
| romanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romanize |
| romanizer | noun (n.) One who Romanizes. |
| romansch | noun (n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. |
| romant | noun (n.) A romaunt. |
| romantic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. |
| adjective (a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets. | |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. |
| romantical | adjective (a.) Romantic. |
| romanticism | noun (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style. |
| romanticist | noun (n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. |
| romanticness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. |
| romany | noun (n.) A gypsy. |
| noun (n.) The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. |
| romanza | noun (n.) See Romance, 5. |
| romaunt | noun (n.) A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose." |
| romble | noun (v.& n.) Rumble. |
| rombowline | noun (n.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear. |
| romeine | noun (n.) Alt. of Romeite |
| romeite | noun (n.) A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium. |
| romekin | noun (n.) A drinking cup. |
| romeward | adjective (a.) Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. |
| adverb (adv.) Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. |
| romic | noun (n.) A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palaeotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler. |
| romish | adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies. |
| romist | noun (n.) A Roman Catholic. |
| romping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romp |
| adjective (a.) Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. |
| romp | noun (n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play. |
| noun (n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play. |
| rompish | adjective (a.) Given to rude play; inclined to romp. |
| rompu | adjective (a.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like. |
| romajikai | noun (n.) An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ROMA:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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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