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Riphean

Riphean is the alternative form of Riphaean.

Meaning of Riphaean

Adjective

Riphaean (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Designating a range of mountains once thought to be located in northern Europe, later considered mythological or identified with the Urals.
    • The substance, whereof she the body made, / Was purest snow in massy mould congeald, / Which she had gathered in a shady glade / Of the Riphœan hills […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about Riphean

What is Riphean the alternative form of?
Riphean is the alternative form of Riphaean.

Words near Riphean in the dictionary

  1. ripgut fences
  2. ripgut grass
  3. Riphaean
  4. Riphagen
  5. Riphagens
  6. Riphean
  7. Ripiceni
  8. ripicolous
  9. ripidolite
  10. ripidolites
  11. ripieni

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