Name Report For First Name RIDA:

RIDA

First name RIDA's origin is Arabic. RIDA means "favored by god". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RIDA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rida.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with RIDA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with RIDA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming RIDA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RĘDA AS A WHOLE:

faridah tiridates arridano cloridan alfrida aridatha eldrida elfrida florida karida querida dridan sheridan coridan halfrida

NAMES RHYMING WITH RĘDA (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ida) - Names That Ends with ida:

rashida saida nashida nida oppida elpida phillida alida dar-al-baida fida abida adalheida aida bethsaida bienvenida brigida calida candida davida heida ida iraida jaida maida majida nelida onida placida zaida ubaida vida zenaida hida elida guida

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (da) - Names That Ends with da:

balinda dada makda makeda nehanda sauda sroda ghayda huda mas'ouda warda zada daghda seda milada arvada afreda belisarda clarimunda yolanda ciarda donalda albreda alda arnalda magnilda marelda mathilda romilda serilda andromeda dorinda halimeda leda rhoda varda darda chamunda chanda sharada clorinda elda geltruda orenda wakanda wihakayda adelajda nadezhda sanda adelinda muenda penda alwalda abda reda ferda jarda standa tonda mudada balisarda shoda ada adda aethelreda

NAMES RHYMING WITH RĘDA (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rid) - Names That Begins with rid:

riddhi riddoc riddock rider ridere ridge ridgeiey ridgeley ridgely ridha ridhi ridley ridpath ridwan

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ri) - Names That Begins with ri:

ria riagan rian rica ricadene ricadonna ricard ricarda ricardo ricca riccardo rice rich richael richard richardo richelle richer richere richie richlynn richman richmond rick rickard ricker rickey rickie rickman rickward ricky ricman rico ricwea ricweard rigby rigel rigg riggs rigmor rihana riikka rikard rikka rikkard rikward ril riley rilla rille rilletta rillette rillia rillie rilynn rim rima rimona rina rinan rinat rinc ring rinji rinna rinnah rio riobard riocard rioghbhardan rioghnach rion riona riordain riordan ripley rique risa rishim risley risteard risto riston rita ritchie ritsa

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RĘDA:

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 rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya reba rebecca rebecka rechavia reema reeya regina rehema reina reinha relia rena renata reta retta reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rheta rhianna rhonda ritza riva rivka roana robena roberta robertia robina robinetta roderica roderiga roderika rodica rodika roesia roka rolanda roldana roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romina rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxana roxanna roza rozalia rozmonda rudella

English Words Rhyming RIDA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RĘDA AS A WHOLE:

acaridannoun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

bridalnoun (n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
 noun (n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

bridaltynoun (n.) Celebration of the nuptial feast.

cantharidaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

eridanusnoun (n.) A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.

fridaynoun (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

harridannoun (n.) A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.

iridaceousadjective (a.) Alt. of Irideous

iridaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors.

lucernaridanoun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa.
 noun (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.

mithridatenoun (n.) An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor.

mithridaticadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.

neocaridanoun (n. pl.) The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.

ophiuridanoun (n. pl.) Same as Ophiurioidea.

paleocaridanoun (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata.

planaridanoun (n. pl.) A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela.

podridanoun (n.) A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.

ridableadjective (a.) Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.

siluridannoun (n.) Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.

stelleridanoun (n. pl.) An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

stelleridannoun (n.) Alt. of Stelleridean

tridacnanoun (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.

tridactyladjective (a.) Alt. of Tridactyle

tridactyleadjective (a.) Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.

tridactylousadjective (a.) Tridactyl.

tubularidanoun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae.

xyridaceousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Xyrideae) of endogenous plants, of which Xyris is the type.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RĘDA (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ida) - English Words That Ends with ida:


annelidanoun (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda.

annuloidanoun (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms.

arachnidanoun (n. pl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

araneidanoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Araneoidea

archiannelidanoun (n. pl.) A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

asafetidanoun (n.) Alt. of Asafoetida

asafoetidanoun (n.) The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.

asiphonidanoun (n. pl.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

assaf/tidanoun (n.) Same as Asafetida.

cnidanoun (n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

coloquintidanoun (n.) See Colocynth.

dravidanoun (n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.

euryalidanoun (n. pl.) A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.

ichthyopsidanoun (n. pl.) A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.

linguatulidanoun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina.

midanoun (n.) The larva of the bean fly.

nemertidanoun (n. pl.) Nemertina.

ornithoscelidanoun (n. pl.) A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds.

pentastomidanoun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina.

pycnogonidanoun (n. pl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.

sauropsidanoun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.

scolecidanoun (n. pl.) Same as Helminthes.

sidanoun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

spongidanoun (n. pl.) Spongiae.

tetractinellidanoun (n. pl.) A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RĘDA (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rid) - Words That Begins with rid:


riddingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rid

riddancenoun (n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
 noun (n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.

riddernoun (n.) One who, or that which, rids.

riddlenoun (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
 noun (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
 noun (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
 verb (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
 verb (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
 verb (v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
 verb (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

riddlingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riddle
 adjective (a.) Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.

riddlernoun (n.) One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
 noun (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.

ridingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ride
 noun (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.
 noun (n.) The act or state of one who rides.
 noun (n.) A festival procession.
 noun (n.) Same as Ride, n., 3.
 noun (n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.
 adjective (a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk.
 adjective (a.) Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
 adjective (a.) Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.

ridenoun (n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
 noun (n.) A saddle horse.
 noun (n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
 verb (v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
 verb (v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
 verb (v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
 verb (v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
 verb (v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
 verb (v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
 verb (v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
 verb (v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
 verb (v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
 verb (v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.

rideaunoun (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

ridentadjective (a.) Laughing.

ridernoun (n.) One who, or that which, rides.
 noun (n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
 noun (n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.
 noun (n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
 noun (n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
 noun (n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
 noun (n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
 noun (n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.
 noun (n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
 noun (n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
 noun (n.) A robber.

riderlessadjective (a.) Having no rider; as, a riderless horse.

ridgenoun (n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.
 noun (n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
 noun (n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
 noun (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
 noun (n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
 verb (v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
 verb (v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
 verb (v. t.) To wrinkle.

ridgingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridge

ridgebandnoun (n.) The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger.

ridgebonenoun (n.) The backbone.

ridgelnoun (n.) Same as Ridgelling.

ridgeletnoun (n.) A little ridge.

ridgelingnoun (n.) A half-castrated male animal.

ridgepiecenoun (n.) Alt. of Ridgeplate

ridgeplatenoun (n.) See Ridgepole.

ridgepolenoun (n.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

ridgeropenoun (n.) See Life line (a), under Life.

ridgyadjective (a.) Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.

ridiclenoun (n.) Ridicule.

ridiculenoun (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
 noun (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
 noun (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
 adjective (a.) Ridiculous.
 verb (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.

ridiculingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridicule

ridiculernoun (n.) One who ridicules.

ridiculositynoun (n.) The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous.

ridiculousadjective (a.) Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
 adjective (a.) Involving or expressing ridicule.

ridottonoun (n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.
 noun (n.) An arrangement or abridgment of a piece from the full score.
 verb (v. i.) To hold ridottos.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RĘDA:

English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':

racaadjective (a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."

rachialgianoun (n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.

rachillanoun (n.) Same as Rhachilla.

racoondanoun (n.) The coypu.

radiatanoun (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.

radiolarianoun (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.

radulanoun (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

raffianoun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.

rafflesianoun (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.

raghuvansanoun (n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.

raianoun (n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

rajanoun (n.) Same as Rajah.

ramayananoun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

ramentanoun (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.

rananoun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

ranulanoun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

ratanoun (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.

ratafianoun (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.

ravenalanoun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.

razzianoun (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.

reatanoun (n.) A lariat.

redianoun (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.

redowanoun (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.

regalianoun (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.

regattanoun (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.

regmanoun (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

regularianoun (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.

rejectamentanoun (n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism.

remoranoun (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.

replicanoun (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.

reptantianoun (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

reptilianoun (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.

resedanoun (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
 noun (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

respondentianoun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself.

reticularianoun (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.

reticulosanoun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia.

retinanoun (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.

retinophoranoun (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.

retinulanoun (n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

rhabdocoelanoun (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.

rhabdophoranoun (n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.

rhabdopleuranoun (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

rhachialgianoun (n.) See Rachialgia.

rhachiglossanoun (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.

rhachillanoun (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

rhamphothecanoun (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.

rheanoun (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.

rhinoscleromanoun (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.

rhinothecanoun (n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.

rhipidoglossanoun (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.

rhizocephalanoun (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

rhizomanoun (n.) SAme as Rhizome.

rhizophaganoun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

rhizophoranoun (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove.

rhizopodanoun (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.

rhizostomatanoun (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.

rhopaloceranoun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.

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

rhynchobdelleanoun (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.

rhynchocephalanoun (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.

rhynchocoelanoun (n. pl.) Same as Nemertina.

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

rhynchophoranoun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.

rhynchotanoun (n. pl.) Same as Hemiptera.

rhytinanoun (n.) See Rytina.

rimanoun (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

robinianoun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

rocoanoun (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.

rodentiaadjective (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.

romanzanoun (n.) See Romance, 5.

rondeletianoun (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

rosalianoun (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.

rosellanoun (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.

roseolanoun (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.

rostranoun (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2.
  (pl. ) of Rostrum

rostriferanoun (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

rotanoun (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.

rotatorianoun (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera.

rotellanoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

rotiferanoun (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.

rottanoun (n.) See Rota.

rotulanoun (n.) The patella, or kneepan.

rotundaadjective (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.

rubellanoun (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

rubeolanoun (n.) the measles.
 noun (n.) Rubella.

ruganoun (n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.

rugosanoun (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.

ruminantianoun (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

rupianoun (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.

rupicolanoun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

rusmanoun (n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.

russianoun (n.) A country of Europe and Asia.

russophobianoun (n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

rytinanoun (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.

rancherianoun (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.

residencianoun (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.

rudbeckianoun (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.