| 单词 | rheum |
| 释义 | rheum (once / 30306 pages) n Rheum is an old-fashioned word for the watery discharge that drips from your nose and eyes when you have a cold or allergies. You may come across the word rheum in 19th-century novels, or your doctor might use the term to describe your cold symptoms. It’s not the word you’d use in everyday speech, though. You wouldn't say, "My allergies are really acting up. Please excuse the rheum streaming down my face." But you might use the adjective rheumy to describe your dog's runny eyes or even your own. The word comes from the Greek rheuma, meaning "a stream, or current." WORD FAMILYrheum: rheums, rheumy+/rheumy: rheumily USAGE EXAMPLESSurprised and relieved that he could see me through all that rheum, I said, “How come?” Salon(Jan 28, 2014) But, pray where is the man who is always suffering from a rheum? Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de...(2012) I said I had been suffering from a rheum, and he replied, with a meaning smile,— "Take care not to catch another." Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de...(2012) n a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose) Hyper discharge, emission a substance that is emitted or released Rheum (once / 295483 pages) n WORD FAMILY Rheum: Rheums USAGE EXAMPLESThere was a lovely emerald-green lake beside the path, and like white sentinels on the hillsides grew the great rhubarb of Sikkim, the Rheum nobile. Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1...(2012) The only medicinal plants were the Rheum palmatum, Artemisia, and the Smilax or China root. Barrow, John, Sir, Travels in China, Containing Descri...(2010) The finest species of the family is the Himalayan Rheum nobile, but it is exceedingly difficult to grow. Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson, The plant-lore & garden-craft of Sh...(2010) n rhubarb Syn|Hyper genus Rheum dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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