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rose

Pronunciation: /ɹəʊz/

The English word “rose” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
  2. A flower of the rose plant.
  3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
  4. Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
  5. A bouquet of circles.
  6. The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
  7. A nontraditional tincture in Canadian heraldry, corresponding to pink.
  8. A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
  9. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
  10. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
  11. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
  12. Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
  13. A graph with only one vertex.
  14. A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
  15. A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.

verb

  1. To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
  2. To perfume, as with roses.

adjective

  1. Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

Etymology

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed]…

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