Name Report For First Name RAMA:
RAMA
First name RAMA's origin is Other. RAMA means "pleasing ravi". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RAMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rama.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with RAMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RAMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RAMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RAMA AS A WHOLE:
ramatulai sarama sharama ramadan agramant arama eramana tramaine eramanNAMES RHYMING WITH RAMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ama) - Names That Ends with ama:
adama mariama salama lama kalama kama kimama usama dreama eskama faoiltiama nehama tama bama nechama anama elishamaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
fatuma halima ifeoma neema esma alima asima huma na'ima numa ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma neoma thelma acima jemima carma ahisma karma padma ruma uma vema gulielma massima roma donoma poloma shima adima juma lema tessema chuma jorma soma adharma algoma alma aluma delma dharma elma ema emma fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nakoma okimma oma paloma purisima salma saloma selima sima suma telma temima velma wilma winemaNAMES RHYMING WITH RAMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ram) - Names That Begins with ram:
ram rambert ramey ramhart rami ramira ramirez ramiro ramla ramm ramon ramona ramond ramone ramos ramsay ramsden ramses ramsey ramy ramzey ramziRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Begins with ra:
ra'idah raad raanan raananah rabab rabah rabbani rabhartach rabi rabiah rabican rachael rachel rachele rachelle rachid rad radbert radbou radbourne radburn radburt radbyrne radcliff radcliffe radclyf radeliffe radella radeyah radford radhiya radhwa radi radite radley radmund radnor radolf radolph radu radwa rae raed raedan raedanoran raedbora raedburne raedc raedclyf raedeman raedford raedleah raedmund raedpath raedself raedwald raedwolf raegan raelynn raena rafa rafael rafal rafas rafe rafela raff rafferty rafi rafik rafiki rafiq raghallach raghd ragheb raghib raghnall ragnallNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RAMA:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
raimunda raina rainaa raissa raja rakanja raluca 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 roldana romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamariaEnglish Words Rhyming RAMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RAMA AS A WHOLE:
| aramaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aramean |
| aramaic | noun (n.) The Aramaic language. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. |
| aramaism | noun (n.) An idiom of the Aramaic. |
| brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
| cosmorama | noun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
| cyclorama | noun (n.) A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially. |
| diorama | noun (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. |
| noun (n.) A building used for such an exhibition. |
| drama | noun (n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. |
| noun (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. | |
| noun (n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. |
| dramatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dramatical |
| dramatical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. |
| dramatist | noun (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays. |
| dramatizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being dramatized. |
| dramatization | noun (n.) Act of dramatizing. |
| dramatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dramatize |
| dramaturgic | adjective (a.) Relating to dramaturgy. |
| dramaturgist | noun (n.) One versed in dramaturgy. |
| dramaturgy | noun (n.) The art of dramatic composition and representation. |
| estramacon | noun (n.) A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| noun (n.) A blow with edge of a sword. |
| framable | adjective (a.) Capable of being framed. |
| georama | noun (n.) A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside. |
| gramarye | noun (n.) Necromancy; magic. |
| gramashes | noun (n. pl.) Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings. |
| hypermyriorama | noun (n.) A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views. |
| inframarginal | adjective (a.) Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain. |
| inframaxillary | adjective (a.) Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower iaw. |
| interramal | adjective (a.) Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular. |
| intramarginal | adjective (a.) Situated within the margin. |
| marinorama | noun (n.) A representation of a sea view. |
| melodrama | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio". |
| melodramatic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. |
| melodramatist | noun (n.) One who acts in, or writes, melodramas. |
| monodrama | noun (n.) Alt. of Monodrame |
| monodramatic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a monodrama. |
| myriorama | noun (n.) A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. |
| neorama | noun (n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. | |
| noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| paramagnetic | noun (n.) A paramagnetic substance. |
| adjective (a.) Magnetic, as opposed to diamagnetic. |
| paramagnetism | noun (n.) Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism. |
| paramaleic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid. |
| paramalic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid. |
| paramastoid | adjective (a.) Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals. |
| paramatta | noun (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. |
| polyorama | noun (n.) A view of many objects; also, a sort of panorama with dissolving views. |
| ramadan | noun (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month. |
| noun (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month. |
| ramage | noun (n.) Boughs or branches. |
| noun (n.) Warbling of birds in trees. | |
| adjective (a.) Wild; untamed. |
| ramagious | adjective (a.) Wild; not tame. |
| ramal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RAMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ama) - English Words That Ends with ama:
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| cariama | noun (n.) A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema. |
| glama | noun (n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude. |
| kaama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| kama | noun (n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers. |
| noun (n.) Desire; animal passion; |
| kokama | noun (n.) The gemsbok. |
| lama | noun (n.) See Llama. |
| noun (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. |
| lecama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| llama | noun (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. |
| mama | noun (n.) See Mamma. |
| mazama | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazame |
| monothalama | noun (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber. |
| paijama | noun (n.) Pyjama. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| pyjama | noun (n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. |
| shama | noun (n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut. |
| squama | noun (n.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium. |
| trama | noun (n.) The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes. |
| yama | noun (n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RAMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ram) - Words That Begins with ram:
| ram | noun (n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup. |
| noun (n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March. | |
| noun (n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name. | |
| noun (n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering. | |
| noun (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram. | |
| noun (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak. | |
| noun (n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic. | |
| noun (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press. | |
| verb (v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving. |
| ramming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ram |
| ramberge | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley. |
| rambling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramble |
| adjective (a.) Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building. |
| ramble | noun (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. |
| noun (n.) A bed of shale over the seam. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way. | |
| verb (v. i.) To extend or grow at random. |
| rambler | noun (n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer. |
| rambooze | noun (n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. |
| rambutan | noun (n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan. |
| rameal | adjective (a.) Same as Ramal. |
| ramean | noun (n.) A Ramist. |
| ramed | adjective (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks. |
| ramee | noun (n.) See Ramie. |
| ramekin | noun (n.) See Ramequin. |
| noun (n.) = Ramequin. |
| rament | noun (n.) A scraping; a shaving. |
| noun (n.) Ramenta. |
| 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. |
| ramentaceous | adjective (a.) Covered with ramenta. |
| rameous | adjective (a.) Ramal. |
| ramequin | noun (n.) A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread. |
| noun (n.) The porcelian or earthen mold in which ramequins are baked and served, by extension, any dish so used. |
| ramie | noun (n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass. |
| ramification | noun (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement. |
| noun (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve. | |
| noun (n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme. | |
| noun (n.) The production of branchlike figures. |
| ramiflorous | adjective (a.) Flowering on the branches. |
| ramiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a branch. |
| ramifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramify |
| ramigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing branches; branched. |
| ramiparous | adjective (a.) Producing branches; ramigerous. |
| ramist | noun (n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians. |
| ramline | noun (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel. |
| rammel | noun (n.) Refuse matter. |
| rammer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rams or drives. |
| noun (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity | |
| noun (n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod | |
| noun (n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact. |
| rammish | adjective (a.) Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious. |
| rammishness | noun (n.) The quality of being rammish. |
| rammy | adjective (a.) Like a ram; rammish. |
| ramollescence | noun (n.) A softening or mollifying. |
| ramoon | noun (n.) A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle. |
| ramose | adjective (a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy. |
| ramous | adjective (a.) Ramose. |
| ramping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramp |
| ramp | noun (n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance. |
| noun (n.) A highwayman; a robber. | |
| noun (n.) A romping woman; a prostitute. | |
| noun (n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase. | |
| noun (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction. | |
| noun (n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels. | |
| verb (v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence. | |
| verb (v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up. |
| rampacious | adjective (a.) High-spirited; rampageous. |
| rampageous | adjective (a.) Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. |
| rampallian | noun (n.) A mean wretch. |
| rampancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. |
| rampart | noun (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark. |
| noun (n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. |
| ramparting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rampart |
| rampe | noun (n.) The cuckoopint. |
| rampier | noun (n.) See Rampart. |
| rampion | noun (n.) A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps. |
| rampire | noun (n.) A rampart. |
| verb (v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. |
| rampler | noun (n.) A rambler. |
| adjective (a.) Roving; rambling. |
| ramrod | noun (n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RAMA:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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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