rochambeau
— Noun
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~ French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)
Rochelle powder
— Noun
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~ an effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic
rochester
— Noun
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~ a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry
Rochester
— Noun
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~ a town in southeast Minnesota
Rochon prism
— Noun
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~ optical device that produces plane-polarized ultraviolet light
rock kangaroo
— Noun
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~ slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas
rock partridge
— Noun
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~ of mountainous areas of southern Europe
rock pink
— Noun
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~ pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
rock bit
— Noun
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~ a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers
rock lobster
— Noun
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~ large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
rock pigeon
— Noun
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~ pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
rock gunnel
— Noun
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~ slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
rock drill
— Noun
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~ a drill for penetrating rock
rock
— Noun
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~ a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."
rock dove
— Noun
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~ pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
Rock Cornish
— Noun
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~ small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl
rock
— Noun
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~ material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
Rock of Gibraltar
— Noun
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~ location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
Rock Cornish hen
— Noun
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~ flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting
rock brake
— Noun
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~ any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions