Definitions for Rhesus

Rhesus rhe·sus

Spelling: [ree-suh s]
IPA: /ˈri səs/

Rhesus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Rhesus (ehrssu).

Definitions for Rhesus

noun

  1. a macaque, Macaca mulatta, of India, used in experimental medicine.

Origin of Rhesus

1830-40; New Latin, arbitrary use of Latin Rhēsus name of a Thracian king allied with Troy Greek Rhêsos

Examples for Rhesus

The sound uttered by the rhesus, as nearly as I can represent it by letters, is "nqu-u-w."

One, the work of the American, Kinnaman, on two rhesus monkeys.

Figs. 434-439 show the structures in Macacus cynomolgus, ochreatus, rhesus and pileatus.

A hamster, for example, cannot choose to behave in the manner of a rhesus monkey.

And that part is less mountainous than the quarter which I have presumed may have supplied the contingent of rhesus.

Now the conjunction of these two plays with the rhesus is significant.

One such case has been described in the order to which man belongs, namely, with the rhesus monkey.

For rhesus hath a pair of milk-white coursers, unmatched in strength and speed, and a car richly adorned with silver and gold.

A hamster, for instance, cannot choose to behave in the manner of a rhesus monkey.

The tenth book relates the night attack upon the camp of the Trojan allies and the theft of the horses of rhesus.

Word Value for Rhesus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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