RHEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhein mean? 

• RHEIN (noun)
  The noun RHEIN has 1 sense:

1. a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea

  Familiarity information: RHEIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Rhein" is a part of...):

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

Several chemical classes in Essiac are consistently represented and may attribute to its therapeutic effect, including anthraquinone derivatives such as rhein and emodin, high molecular polysaccharides, and lignans such as arctigenin.

(Essiac, NCI Thesaurus)