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rose

1  [rohz] noun, adjective, verb, rosed, ros⋅ing.
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1. any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa. Compare rose family.
2. any of various related or similar plants.
3. the flower of any such shrub, of a red, pink, white, or yellow color.
4. the traditional reddish color of this flower, variously a purplish red, pinkish red, or light crimson.
5. an ornament shaped like or suggesting this flower.
6. a pink or pinkish-red color in the cheek.
7. rose window.
8. Heraldry. a representation of a wild rose with five petals, usually seeded and barbed in a symmetrical design and used esp. as the cadency mark of a seventh son.
9. any of various diagrams showing directions radiating from a common center, as a compass card or wind rose.
10. Jewelry.
a. an obsolete gem style or cut, flat on the bottom and having an upper side with from 12, or fewer, to 32 triangular facets.
b. a gem with this cut.
11. a perforated cap or plate, as at the end of a pipe or the spout of a watering pot, to break a flow of water into a spray.
12. an ornamental plate or socket surrounding the shaft of a doorknob at the face of a door.
13. Mathematics. a plane polar curve consisting of three or more equal loops that meet at the origin. Equation: r = a sin(nθ) or r = a cos(nθ).
–adjective
14. of the color rose.
15. for, containing, or growing roses: a rose garden.
16. scented like a rose.
–verb (used with object)
17. to make rose-colored.
18. to flush (the face, cheeks, etc.).
—Idiom
19. come up roses, Informal. to turn out all right; result in success, glory, or profit: Despite setbacks, things should come up roses in the long run.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE rōse < L rosa; akin to Gk rhódon (see rhododendron )

Related forms:
roseless, adjective
roselike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

rose 
O.E. rose, from L. rosa (cf. It., Sp. rosa, Fr. rose; also source of Du. roos, Ger. Rose, Swed. ros, etc.), probably via It. and Gk. dialects from Gk. rhodon "rose" (Aeolic wrodon), ult. from Pers. *vrda-. But cf. Tucker: "The rose was a special growth of Macedonia & the Thracian region as well as of Persia, & the Lat. & Gk. names prob. came from a Thraco-Phrygian source." Aramaic warda is from O.Pers.; the modern Pers. cognate, via the usual sound changes, is gul, source of Turk. gül "rose." The ultimate source of all this may be PIE *wrdho- "thorn, bramble." Used of a color since 1530. In English civil wars of 15c., the white rose was the badge of the House of York, the red of its rival Lancaster. Rose-water is attested from 1398. Rose-colored "optimistic" is first recorded 1854. In the fig. sense, bed of roses is from 1593. Rosy in the sense of "cheerful" is first recorded 1775; meaning "promising" is from 1887. Rose of Sharon (Song of Sol. ii.1) is attested from 1611 and named for the fertile strip of coastal Palestine. The flower has not been identified; used in U.S. since 1847 of the Syrian hibiscus.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: rose
Pronunciation: 'rOz
Function: noun
1 a : any of a genus (Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose family) of usually pricklyshrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers of which some are sources of rose oil b : the flower of a rose
2 : ERYSIPELAS
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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