| rubens | (n) prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640), Syn. Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens |
| jack-in-the-pulpit | (n) common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries, Syn. wake-robin, Indian turnip, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens |
| red spruce | (n) medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood, Syn. yellow spruce, eastern spruce, Picea rubens |
| rubinstein | (n) Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894), Syn. Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton Rubenstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein |
