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rex
/ɹɛks/
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What does rex mean?
noun
- A king, particularly in ancient Rome.
- An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.
verb
- To breed (an animal) to have this kind of hair.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- The reigning king.
- A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.
- A popular name for a dog.
- An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.
- A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɛks/
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The foliage of rex begonias should be cleansed with a piece of dry or only slightly moist cotton.
And if there be no such right, then the Controuler of Lawes is not Parlamentum, but Rex In Parlamento.
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This Rex certainly must be a relation of the great author Finis, who wrote all books!
“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.”
"Ne corpus liberi hominis capiatur nec imprisonetur nec disseisetur nec ut1agetur nec exuletur nec aliquo modo destruatur nec rex eat vel mittat super eun vi nisi per judicium pariurn suorum vel per legem terrae."