Lexic.us

Definition of Rosette

1. Noun. An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor.

2. Noun. Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes.

3. Noun. A cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground).

4. Noun. Circular window filled with tracery.

Definition of Rosette

1. n. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

Definition of Rosette

1. Noun. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge. ¹

2. Noun. (architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration. ¹

3. Noun. A red color. ¹

4. Noun. A rose burner. ¹

5. Noun. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant. ¹

6. Noun. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape. ¹

7. Noun. (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. ¹

8. Noun. (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard. ¹

9. Noun. A floral pattern in (w latte art). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rosette

1. an ornament resembling a rose [n -S]

Medical Definition of Rosette

1. A group of organs or other body features, such as leaves or hair, which are clustered and crowned around a common point of attachment. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosette

roseries roseroot roseroots rosery roses roseslug roseslugs roset roseted roseting

rosetinted rosets rosetta rosetta wood rosettas rosette (current term) rosette-forming cells rosette formation rosette test rosetted

rosettelike rosettes rosetting rosetty rosety rosewater rosewater sailor rosewaters rosewood rosewood tree

Literary usage of Rosette

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Surface of hs. of the rosettes glabrous. Q. rosette hs. more or less ovate or obovate. H. Lf.-blade broadest toward the base. ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"One of the striking features of the new germ, arid probably the one that led Laveran to his identification of it, was the presence of a peculiar rosette, ..."

3. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"rosette Cause not established The rosette disease affects many kinds of peaches, ... The rosette disease is more rapid in its destruction than is yellows, ..."

4. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"rosette Cause not established The rosette disease affects many kinds of peaches, ... The rosette disease is more rapid in its destruction than is yellows, ..."

5. Poems and Translations by William James Linton (1889)
"Your splendid carriage may display Your rich adornments,—well they suit: rosette, but neat and fresh and gay, Tripp'd lightly, jauntily, on foot. ..."

6. Humour of France by Elizabeth Lee (1893)
"Ah, if I only could love you As once I used to love rosette ! ... rosette with just a riband gay Skimmed laughingly her mother-earth, While right and left ..."

7. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"rosette CRYSTALS rosette crystals are compound crystals composed of an ... For instance, the largest rosette crystal occurring in wahoo root bark (Plate 80, ..."

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