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rhombus (encz) | rhombus,kosočtverec n: Zdeněk Brož |
Rhombus (gcide) | Rhombus \Rhom"bus\, n. [L.]
Same as Rhomb, 1.
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rhombus (wn) | rhombus
n 1: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled
equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb,
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rhombuses (encz) | rhombuses, |
Rhombus (gcide) | Rhombus \Rhom"bus\, n. [L.]
Same as Rhomb, 1.
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Rhombus levis (gcide) | Brill \Brill\, n. [Cf. Corn. brilli mackerel, fr. brith
streaked, speckled.] (Zool.)
A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed
in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill.
See Bret.
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Rhombus maximus (gcide) | Turbot \Tur"bot\, n. [F.; -- probably so named from its shape,
and from L. turbo a top, a whirl.] (Zool.)
(a) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly
esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to
forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish
with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface.
The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also {bannock
fluke}.
(b) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less
related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or
summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the
diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
(c) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
(d) The trigger fish.
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Spotted turbot. See Windowpane.
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Rhombus megastoma (gcide) | Marysole \Ma"ry*sole\, n. [Mary, the proper name + sole the
fish.] (Zool.)
A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); --
called also carter, and whiff.
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scophthalmus rhombus (wn) | Scophthalmus rhombus
n 1: European food fish [syn: brill, Scophthalmus rhombus] |
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