Rosette definition

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An ornament or badge made of ribbon or silk that is pleated or gathered to resemble a rose and is given as an award, used to decorate clothing, or worn in the buttonhole of civilian dress to indicate the possession of certain medals or honors.
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A roselike marking or formation, such as one of the clusters of spots on a leopard's fur.
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(archit.) A painted or sculptured ornament, usually circular, having petals and leaves radiating symmetrically from the center.
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(architecture) A painted, carved, or sculptured ornament having a circular arrangement of parts radiating out from the center and suggesting the petals of a rose.
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(botany) A circular cluster of leaves that radiate from a center at or close to the ground, as in the dandelion.
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An ornamental circular band surrounding the central hole of an acoustic guitar.
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An ornament made of ribbons, threads, etc. gathered or tufted in the shape of a rose.
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Any formation, arrangement, etc. resembling or suggesting a rose.
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(bot.) A circular cluster of leaves, petals, or other organs, esp. such a cluster produced at the base of a plant as a means of overwintering.
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An ornament or badge made of ribbon or silk that is pleated or gathered to resemble a rose and is given as an award, used to decorate clothing, or worn in the buttonhole of civilian dress to indicate the possession of certain medals or honors.
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A roselike marking or formation, such as one of the clusters of spots on a leopard's fur.
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(architecture) A painted, carved, or sculptured ornament having a circular arrangement of parts radiating out from the center and suggesting the petals of a rose.
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(botany) A circular cluster of leaves that radiate from a center at or close to the ground, as in the dandelion.
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An ornamental circular band surrounding the central hole of an acoustic guitar.
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An airy, deep-fried cookie in the shape of a flower, usually sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.
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Food formed or cut into the shape of a rose.

Potato rosettes; a rosette of whipped cream.

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An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
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(architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
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A red color.
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A rose burner.
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(botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
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(botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
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(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.
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(zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
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A floral pattern in latte art.
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(medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
rosette
Plural:
rosettes

Origin of rosette

  • French from Old French diminutive of rose rose rose1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French rosette.

    From Wiktionary

Rosette Sentence Examples

  • The plants are apparently stemless, bearing a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves, or have a shorter or longer (sometimes branched) stem, along which, or towards the end of which and its branches, the generally fleshy leaves are borne.

  • It is a herb with a rosette of fleshy, oblong leaves, i to 3 in.

  • As the leaves unfold from the centre of the rosette the impression of the marginal spines is very conspicuous on the still erect younger leaves.

  • This point is very near the present mosque of Nebi Daniel; and the line of the great east-west "Canopic" street only slightly diverged from that of the modern Boulevard de Rosette.

  • The ground colour of the jaguar varies greatly, ranging from white to black, the rosette markings in the extremes being but faintly visible.

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