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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An equilateral parallelogram.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as rhomb.
  2. n. [capitalized] An obsolete constellation, near the south pole.
  3. n. [NL.] In ichthyology: [capitalized] A genus of Stromateidæ, generally united with Stromateus.
  4. n. The Linnean specific name of the turbot (as Pleuronectcs rhombus), and later [capitalized] a generic name of the same (as Rhombus maximus), and of various other flatfishes now assigned to different genera.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as rhomb, 1.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin, from Latin, flatfish, magician's circle, from Greek rhombos, rhombus; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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