rosette

See also: Rosette and rôsette

English[edit]

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rosette

Wikipedia

A rosette made of ribbon.

An architectural rosette.

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French rosette.

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈzɛt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈzɛt/
Audio (AU)
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Rhymes: -ɛt

A rosette pattern in latte art.

rosette pastries

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.
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.
A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
A form of knot.
A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.

Synonyms[edit]

(red color): roset
(latte art): rosetta

Related terms[edit]

rose

Translations[edit]

ornamental imitation of a rose

Czech: rozeta f, růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
Italian: coccarda (it) f

Norwegian: rosett m
Russian: розетта (ru) f (rozetta)
Serbo-Croatian: розета f

architectural ornament

Czech: rozeta f, růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)

Norwegian: rosett m
Serbo-Croatian: розета

red color

Serbo-Croatian: ружичаста

rose burner — see rose burner

botany: one or more whorls of leaves

Czech: růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)

Serbo-Croatian: розета

botany: type of plant growth

Czech: růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)

Serbo-Croatian: розета

zoology: structure having a flowerlike form

Finnish: ruusuke (fi)

Serbo-Croatian: розета

zoology: flowerlike color marking

Finnish: täplä (fi)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams[edit]

tetrose