Definition of Rhuses

1. rhus [n] - See also: rhus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhuses

rhubarby
rhumb
rhumb-line
rhumb line
rhumb lines
rhumba
rhumbaed
rhumbaing
rhumbas
rhumbline
rhumblines
rhumbs
rhupunt
rhus
rhus dermatitis
rhuses (current term)
rhusma
rhusmas
rhy
rhykenologist
rhykenologists
rhyku
rhymable
rhyme
rhyme off
rhyme or reason
rhyme royal
rhyme scheme
rhyme schemes
rhymed

Literary usage of Rhuses

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

1. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"Of the true rhuses we have in eastern America a dozen species, including three ... The Japanese rhuses are not as ornamental in the autumn as our Sumachs, ..."

2. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1907)
"Its greatest fault is distributing seeds of the poisonous rhuses, a sin which it shares with so many other birds that there is no occasion for invidious ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"... the Bill generally in other quarters, and because several of the rhuses are so plainly and distinctly expressed that no one can mistake their meaning. ..."

4. The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell (1843)
"... not in the marshes, but in rhuses or peat-moors, Niebuhr referred to the statement of Tacitus that they dried earth and used it for fuel. ..."

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