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rhombus
  1. (zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus. [from 16th c.]
  2. (zoology, archaic) Snails, now in Conus or Conidae.
  3. (geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. [from 16th c.]
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I picked up an interesting sedimentary rock that was the exact shape of a rhombus.”
      “On more than one occasion during the qualifiers Eriksson's jewel looked more like a rhombus that had slewed drunkenly.”
      “A week ago, Brian Woolnough and his pals forbade him constructing a rhombus out of his midfield troops.”
rhomboid
  1. A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle
  2. Any of several muscles that control the shoulders
  3. A solid shape which has rhombic faces
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The artist skillfully painted a large rhomboid on the canvas, showcasing the mesmerizing qualities of the four-sided figure with its unequal sides and parallel lines.”
rhomb
  1. A rhombus.
  2. A rhombohedron.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This emblem was like vertical rhomb or diamond with a horizontal line in the middle, or two triangles joined together.”
      “Incisions are made in the skin side in opposite directions to create a rhomb pattern.”
      “These kites have good size rhomb shapes, and due to their lightness, they are stable while flying, very easy to set up and even easier to fly.”
rhombohedron
  1. A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Faceted stones weighing 25.56 and 61.24 carats along with a rhombohedron of rhodochrosite on matrix are illustrated and discussed by Sinkankas.”
      “At most locations in the Deccan Traps, the primary form for calcite is the rhombohedron.”
      “As in the other rhombohedral carbonates, the crystals possess perfect cleavages parallel to the faces of the rhombohedron.”
rhomboideus
  1. (anatomy) Any of the rhomboid muscles.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Muscles acting on the scapula in this section include serratus anterior, rhomboideus minor, rhomboideus major, trapezius, and deltoid.”
      “A slip at the level of rhomboideus minor, named rhomboideus minimus, extends from the scapula to thoracic or lower cervical vertebral spines.”
      “This is a back view on left side, showing slips of levator scapulae to serratus anterior and rhomboideus minor.”
rhomboides
  1. (obsolete) A rhomboid.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Branchial rickettsia-like infection associated with clam Venerupis rhomboides mortality.”
      “Nelson suggested that the observed amphipod change was the result of predation by the pinfish Lagodon rhomboides.”
      “The influence of benthic macrophytes on the foraging behavior of pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides.”
rhombohedra
  1. plural of rhombohedron
  2. Examples:
    1. “Along this seam were occasional pockets from 0.1 to 0.5 meter across, lined with calcite rhombohedra.”
      “This occurrence is known for plates of complex rhombohedra of pink manganoan calcite.”
      “Rhodochrosite crystals do occur here from time to time as relatively small flat rhombohedra.”
rhombohedrons
  1. plural of rhombohedron
rhomboidei
  1. plural of rhomboideus
rhomboids
  1. plural of rhomboid
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He rattles off a host of muscles they work, including lats, biceps, rear delts, rhomboids, triceps and brachialis.”
      “It was parallel and modern and ran level with lines of mountain, it was squares to be bisected and parallelograms and rhomboids.”
      “These works feature flat surfaces with bold lines that suggest interlocking cubes, rhomboids, and other 3-D shapes.”
rhombi
  1. plural of rhombus
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Cut it into rough shapes – triangles, rhombi and trapezoids – each one between 1-6cm wide and 5-15cm long.”
      “That accounts for a dense, but visually acceptable tessellation of rhombi.”
      “The rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombi as its faces.”
rhombuses
rhombs
  1. plural of rhomb
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The indistinct boundaries between these dolomite rhombs and the calcite suggests that the latter has been partially dolomitized.”
      “Tiny adularia rhombs are also present on the matrix of a specimen showing an unusual association of wire gold with scheelite.”
      “Concurrent with this, the entire pectinirhomb becomes greatly protuberant along a large, thinwalled ridge spanning the incurrent and excurrent half rhombs.”
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