Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rhomboid.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] An old genus of fishes.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of mollusks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A rhomboid.
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- noun obsolete A
rhomboid .
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Examples
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In the first course there was a shoulder of mutton, cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.
Gulliver's Travels 1896
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In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726
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In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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Black iron ore, sometimes of a shining surface, granulated in fine grains, crystallized in polygons, octaedra, cubes, and rhomboides.
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