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ryoboku

ryoboku is the alternative letter-case form of Ryoboku.

Noun capitalized: Ryoboku

Ryoboku (countable and uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) A Japanese style of aquarium aquascaping that focuses on wood being the main hardscape material; (countable) an aquascape in this style.
    • Coordinate term: Iwagumi
    • I've been drooling over the ryoboku look and my goal was to have roots running through stones like you might see at the waters edge.2019 October 23, Btanders, “UNS 90B (12 gal long) Ryoboku, first time doing CO2, ideas welcome”, in plantedtank.net, archived from the original on 03 May 2025

Forms of ryoboku

alternative formryoboku

Origin of ryoboku

Borrowed from Japanese 流木(りゅうぼく) (ryūboku, “driftwood”).

Questions about ryoboku

What does ryoboku mean?
Ryoboku means a Japanese style of aquarium aquascaping that focuses on wood being the main hardscape material; (countable) an aquascape in this style.
What is ryoboku the alternative letter-case form of?
Ryoboku is the alternative letter-case form of Ryoboku.
What part of speech is ryoboku?
Ryoboku is a noun.

Words near ryoboku in the dictionary

  1. rynge
  2. rynges
  3. Rynn
  4. rynt
  5. ryo
  6. ryoboku
  7. Ryobu
  8. ryokan
  9. ryokans
  10. Ryon
  11. Ryons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ryoboku (page history and authors); Ryoboku (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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