rosette
English
WOTD – 16 June 2009
Noun
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.
- Synonym: rondelle
Related terms
Translations
ornamental imitation of a rose
architectural ornament
red color
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rose burner — see rose burner
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁozɛt/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “rosette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
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