Rhymes for RUSTICANA

• a coot found in North America

• a collection of anecdotes about a person or place

• mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu

• A banana

• A fool

• (term of endearment) one's grandmother

• A nanny

• large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

• Big boss, important person.

• The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

• A hiragana or katakana character.

• Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.

• Magical power.

• A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.

• A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.

• One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.

• Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

• (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

• The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

• (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)

• an unspecified time in the future

• a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances

• pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine

• dried seedless grape

• Specialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.

• A mystery or deep secret.

• An elixir or secret remedy.

• A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.

• The Japanese art of flower arrangement.

• An arrangement of flowers in this style.

• A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.

• A character thereof.

• a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge

• any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod

• large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples

• a meet at which riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes

• a genus of about 150 species of flowering shrub, commonly known as shrub verbenas or lantanas

• small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

• A tree, Paullinia cupana, native to Venezuela and northern Brazil.

• The fruit from this tree.

• An edible paste prepared from the seeds of the tree, formed into round or oblong cakes.

• The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.

• A letter of this syllabary.

• Any of a group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws, and found throughout the world.

• A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies.

• A type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water.

• A triangular space between the sides of a pediment.

• The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

• The middle ear.

• The eardrum.

• A hearing organ in frogs, toads and some insects.

• In certain birds, the labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.

• A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.

• A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.

• An effeminate or crossdressing male in northern India or Pakistan. (Also spelled zanána.)

• a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign

• a Spanish female Gypsy

• a Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula; popular among American tourists for racetracks and bullfights

• the shape of a bell

• type genus of the Ranidae

• Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann; identified with the Welsh Don

• a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border