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Rosemary
n.
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A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.
Rosen
a.
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Consisting of roses; rosy.
Rosenmuller's organ
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The parovarium.
Roseo-
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A prefix (also used adjectively) signifying rose-red; specifically used to designate certain rose-red compounds (called roseo-cobaltic compounds) of cobalt with ammonia. Cf. Luteo-.
Roseola
n.
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A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.
Rose-pink
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Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.
Rose-pink
a.
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Disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental.
Roser
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A rosier; a rosebush.
Rose-red
a.
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Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color.
Rose-rial
n.
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A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.
Roseroot
n.
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A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
Rosery
n.
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A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.
Roset
n.
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A red color used by painters.
Ro-setta stone
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A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
Rosetta wood
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An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork.
Rosette
n.
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An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
Rosette
n.
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An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
Rosette
n.
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A red color. See Roset.
Rosette
n.
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A rose burner. See under Rose.
Rosette
n.
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Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
Rosette
n.
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A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
Rose water
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Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
Rose-water
a.
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Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental.
Rosewood
n.
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A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
Roseworm
n.
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The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.
Rosewort
n.
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Roseroot.
Rosewort
n.
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Any plant nearly related to the rose.
Rosicrucian
n.
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One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
Rosicrucian
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
Rosied
a.
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Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.