rheum

Examples

• All

• Mistress Bider was kept busy dispensing decoctions for the ague and rheum.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Jesse was sick... with rheums, and aches and lung congestions.

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

• You, that did void your rheum upon my beard and kick me as you spurn a stranger cur over your threshold.

  The Merchant of Venice (2004)

• Allergy season often causes a lot of rheum to build up in my nose.

• He noticed a thick rheum forming at the corners of his eyes during the cold weather.

Synonyms

S

snot

vsrheum

30 6.3

Thick wet stuff that comes from the nose when you have a cold

refers to a thin watery discharge rather than thick nasal mucus

R

rhinorrhea

vsrheum

• Specialized

1 9.9

A long runny nose with watery mucus often from a cold or allergies

also covers watery discharge from eyes as well as the nose

Compounds

R

Rheum rhaponticum

• Specialized

9.6

A plant with tart edible stems that people cook and eat in pies

R

Rheum australe

• Specialized

9.9

A plant from the Himalayas whose roots are used in traditional medicine

R

Rheum cultorum

• Specialized

8.6

A garden plant like rhubarb grown for its sour edible stems used in pies or jam

R

Rheum palmatum

• Specialized

9.8

A rhubarb plant from Asia that is used in traditional medicine to help people with constipation

R

Rheum rhabarbarum

• Specialized

7.8

A plant with thick edible stalks often used in cooking like pies

Surface Forms

Etymology