hard white metallic element, 1804, Modern Latin, coined by its discoverer, English physician William H. Wollaston (1766-1828), and named for the color of solutions containing it, from Greek rhodon "rose" (see rose (n.1)) + metallic element ending -ium.
rhizome
rhizophagous
Rhode Island
Rhodes
Rhodes scholar
rhodium
rhododendron
rhomb
rhomboid
rhombus
rhonchus
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