rosette

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[edit] English

A rosette made of ribbon.
An architectural rosette.

[edit] Etymology

From French rosette.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Singular
rosette

Plural
rosettes

rosette (plural rosettes)

  1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
  2. (architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
  3. A red color.
  4. A rose burner.
  5. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
  6. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
  7. (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.
  8. (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.

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[edit] Translations

ornamental imitation of a rose
architectural ornament
red color
rose burner — see rose burner
botany: one or more whorls of leaves
botany: type of plant growth
zoology: structure having a flowerlike form
zoology: flowerlike color marking

Part or all of this page 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

rose +‎ -ette

[edit] Noun

rosette f. (plural rosettes)

  1. rosette

[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

rosette f.

  1. Plural form of rosetta.
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