Usually means: Reddish-brown color; often describes animals.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rufus, rufus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Rufus, rufus: Wordnik
  3. Rufus: Wiktionary
  4. Rufus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Rufus: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Rufus: Dictionary.com
  7. Rufus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. Rufus (Kim Possible), Rufus (Roman cognomen), Rufus (Rufus album), Rufus (Software), Rufus (Street Fighter), Rufus (actor), Rufus (band), Rufus (biblical figure), Rufus (disambiguation), Rufus (film), Rufus (software), Rufus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Rufus: Rhymezone
  10. Rufus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  11. Rufus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rufus (disambiguation), Rufus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rufus (disambiguation), rufus: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rufus: Easton Bible
  2. Rufus: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rufus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rufus (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. rufus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rufus)

▸ noun:  Either of two persons mentioned in the New Testament (in Mark 15:21 and Romans 16:13).
▸ noun:  A male given name from Latin, used since the seventeenth century.
▸ noun:  A minor city in Sherman County, Oregon, United States.

Similar:
Radulfus, Rastus, Rufalin, ruck, Reubenite, rufousness, Roubenid, Ramean, Rom., ruffiano, more...

Types:
Rufus the dog, Rufus the band, Rufus the Roman, more...

Phrases:
Rufus King, william rufus, rufus jones, rufus choate, Rufus Putnam, more...

Adjectives:
old, young, little, good, certain, poor, same, stoic, roman, second, wicked


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Similar:
Radulfus, Rastus, Rufalin, ruck, Reubenite, rufousness, Roubenid, Ramean, Rom., ruffiano, more...

Types:
Rufus the dog, Rufus the band, Rufus the Roman, more...

Phrases:
Rufus King, william rufus, rufus jones, rufus choate, Rufus Putnam, lynx rufus, rufus anderson, rufus porter, macropus rufus, canis rufus, felis rufus, rufus hathaway, william rufus day, choate, rufus, more...

Adjectives:
old, young, little, good, certain, poor, same, stoic, roman, second, wicked



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