Definition of Rhomboi

1. rhombos [n] - See also: rhombos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhomboi

rhombo-
rhomboatloideus
rhombocele
rhomboclase
rhomboclases
rhomboganoid
rhomboganoidei
rhomboganoids
rhombogene
rhombogenes
rhombohedra
rhombohedral
rhombohedric
rhombohedron
rhombohedrons
rhomboi (current term)
rhomboid
rhomboid fossa
rhomboid impression
rhomboid ligament
rhomboid minor
rhomboid minor muscle
rhomboid muscle
rhomboid protease
rhomboid proteases
rhomboidal
rhomboidally
rhomboidei
rhomboides
rhomboideus

Literary usage of Rhomboi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"The acid ealt, C'H'(NH4)04, forms beautiful rhomboi'dal prisms, permanent in the air, very soluble in water. Barium-tails. ..."

2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1841)
"This bone penetrates with ils posterior part into a cartilaginous plate of a rhomboi'dal shape, which has two sides forward and two backward, ..."

3. Elemente Der Mineralogie by Carl Friedrich Naumann (1868)
"88 das rhomboi-der —** w' Fig. 87 das Skaleno^der R3 darstellt. Dasselbe gilt von den Figuren < bis 9, 44 und 45, ..."

4. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1839)
"rhomboi'DES. Bl. A genus described as resembling Bys- somya, in the shell, but differing in the animal. Mytilus rugosus, Gmelin. Hypogaea barbata, Poli. ..."

5. Index Entomologicus: Or, A Complete Illustrated Catalogue, Consisting of by William Wood, John Obadiah Westwood (1852)
"Woods. Middle of June. A. t. 93, /. a—d. D. 15, Birch and t. 527. St. 3, p. 187. Coombe Woods. 6498 ALCIS. End of June. 511 rhomboi- Willow Beauty St. 3, p. ..."

6. A Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and Physiological Terms by Thomas Dunman (1879)
"rhomboi'deus ma'jor (Gr. rhombos, a rhomb; eidos, form; L. major, greater).—A muscle passing from the anterior dorsal part of the vertebral column to the ..."

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