rhesus

[ ree-suh s ]

/ ˈri səs /

noun

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

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Origin of rhesus

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

OTHER WORDS FROM rhesus

rhe·sian

[ree-shuh n] /ˈri ʃən/, adjective

Words nearby rhesus

rheostosis, rheotaxis, rheotron, rheotropism, rhestocythemia, rhesus, rhesus baby, rhesus factor, rhesus monkey, rhet., rhetian

Example sentences from the Web for rhesus

It is doubtful whether it is more than a variety of the Rhesus Monkey (M. rhesus).
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
The Rhesus, a feeble production long attributed to Euripides, is almost certainly not his work.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various
Indeed one might almost say that the Rhesus is simply the Doloneia turned into drama and set in the Trojan camp.
The Rhesus of Euripedes|Euripedes
Odysseus drives the horses of Rhesus out of the camp with the bow of Meriones; he has forgotten to take the whip from the chariot.
Homer and His Age|Andrew Lang

There has come down to us a remarkable tragedy, called the Rhesus, about a similar region.
Authors of Greece|T. W. Lumb

British Dictionary definitions for rhesus

Rhesus

/ (ˈriːsəs) /

noun

Greek myth a king of Thrace, who arrived in the tenth year of the Trojan War to aid Troy. Odysseus and Diomedes stole his horses because an oracle had said that if these horses drank from the River Xanthus, Troy would not fall

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