Defn: A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.
Note: The species are remarkable for having an elevated fan-shaped crest of feathers on the head, and for the beautiful color of their plumage, which is mostly some delicate shade of yellow or orange.
RUPICOLINE
Ru*pic"o*line, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Rock-inhabiting.
RUPTION
Rup"tion, n. Etym: [L. ruptio, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break.]
Defn: A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. "By ruption or apertion." Wiseman.
RUPTUARY
Rup"tu*a*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. Roturier.]
Defn: One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.] The exclusion of the French ruptuaries ("roturiers," for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. Chenevix.
RUPTURE Rup"ture, n. Etym: [L. ruptura, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. F. rupture. See Reave, and cf. Rout a defeat.]
1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.