Words that rhyme with mascarenas

n 1: a general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism" 2: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

adj 1: extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations" [syn: flagitious, heinous]

adj 1: within or by means of a vein; "an intravenous inflammation"; "intravenous feeding" [syn: intravenous, endovenous]

n 1: a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness] 2: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something [syn: eagerness, avidity, avidness, keenness] 3: thinness of edge or fineness of point [syn: sharpness, keenness] [ant: bluntness, dullness]

n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity] 2: the property of having little body fat [syn: leanness, thinness, spareness] [ant: avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness]

n 1: (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species

adj 1: of or contained in or performing the function of the veins; "venous inflammation"; "venous blood as contrasted with arterial blood"; "venous circulation"

n 1: the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer" 2: goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite [syn: Venus, Urania] 3: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells [syn: Venus, genus Venus]

n 1: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus, dominie, domine, dominee]

n 1: any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) 2: the chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey