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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French rosette, rozette (in sense 15) and (modern) French rosette.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]rosette (plural rosettes)
- An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
- (architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
- (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
- A red color.
- A rose burner.
- (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- A floral pattern in latte art.
- (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
- (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
- (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
- A form of knot.
- A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal. [from 1609][1]
- Synonym: rondelle
- [1609, [Marc Lescarbot], translated by P[ierre] Erondelle, “The leauing of Port du Moutton: […]”, in Noua Francia: Or The Description of That Part of Neuu France, Which Is One Continent with Virginia. […], London: […] Georgii Bishop, page 13:
- (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
- (pathology) Synonym of worm-star
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Homer-Wright rosette
- rosette bok choy
- rosette burner
- rosetted
- rosette sampler
- rosette scan
- rosette seeker
- rosettelike
- rosetting
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]ornamental imitation of a rose
architectural ornament
A red color
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rose burner — see rose burner
botany: one or more whorls of leaves
zoology: structure having a flowerlike form
References
[edit]- ^ “rosette, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rosette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rosette f (plural rosettes)
Descendants
[edit]- → Polish: rozeta
Further reading
[edit]- “rosette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]rosette f
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