Raphanus sativus
— Noun
– English
~ Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw
Regulus satrata
— Noun
– English
~ American golden-crested kinglet
remoulade sauce
— Noun
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~ a mayonnaise sauce flavored with herbs and mustard and capers; served with e.g. salad and cold meat
red saunders
— Noun
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~ tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
retirement savings plan
— Noun
– English
~ a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement
retirement savings account
— Noun
– English
~ a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement
reciprocating saw
— Noun
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~ a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
Roccus saxatilis
— Noun
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~ marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
Rubus saxatilis
— Noun
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~ European trailing bramble with red berrylike fruits
russet scab
— Noun
– English
~ rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
round scad
— Noun
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~ small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
Reaumur scale
— Noun
– English
~ a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees
Rankine scale
— Noun
– English
~ a scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees
Richter scale
— Noun
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~ a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations
retinal scanning
— Noun
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~ biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye; "identification by retinal scanning is complicated by eye movements"
red scare
— Noun
– English
~ a period of general fear of communists