(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Russian language, Russian linguistics, and Russian sociolinguistics.

(historical) Of or pertaining to Great Russia. / (historical) Of or pertaining to Great Russians, the language of Great Russia, as opposed to Little Russia, White Russia, etc.

(historical) A person from, or an inhabitant of, Great Russia.

(obsolete) The Russian language, especially when (possibly erroneously) considered to be mutually intelligible with the Ukrainian (Little Russian) and Belarusian (White Russian) languages.

An oleaster, Elaeagnus angustifolia.

(cryptography) A method of rearranging plaintext before encryption by breaking it into two parts and inverting their order, so as to conceal obvious headers, salutations, signatures, etc.

plural of Russian bar

(circus arts) A gymnastics-style beam held by two porters used to do gymnastics-style tricks. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Russian, bar.

Any of several species of genus Salsola and its close relatives, prickly shrublike annuals, especially Salsola tragus (syn. Kali tragus, which is the best-known kind of tumbleweed in the US.

plural of Russian oven