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Rachitome
- - A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.
Racketeer
- noun - carry on illegal business activities involving crime
- someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
Racketing
- verb - celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"
- hit (a ball) with a racket
- make loud and annoying noises
Raconteur
- noun - a person skilled in telling anecdotes
Radiately
- - In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.
Radiating
- verb - cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays; "The sun is radiating"
- diverging from a common point
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness"
- extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions"
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
- issue or emerge in rays or waves; "Heat radiated from the metal box"
- send out rays or waves; "The sun radiates heat"
- send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness"
- spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified"
Radiation
- noun - (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
- a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain
- energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles
- syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours; "he was suffering from radiation"
- the act of spreading outward from a central source
- the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay
- the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats
Radiative
- - Capable of radiating; acting by radiation.
Radiators
- noun - a mechanism consisting of a metal honeycomb through which hot fluids circulate; heat is transferred from the fluid through the honeycomb to the airstream that is created either by the motion of the vehicle or by a fan
- any object that radiates energy
- heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings
Rain Tree
- noun -
- large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
- Monkey Pod
Samanea saman
a.k.a. Rain Tree, Saman, French Tamarind
A large, wide-canopied tree that is famously native to the tropics.