rosette

See also: Rosette and rôsette

English edit

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rosette

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A rosette made of ribbon.

An architectural rosette.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French rosette.

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈzɛt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈzɛt/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛt

A rosette pattern in latte art.

rosette pastries

Noun edit

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.
(music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
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.
(cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
(cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
A form of knot.
A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
Synonym: rondelle
(oceanography) A rosette sampler.
(pathology) Synonym of worm-star

Synonyms edit

(red color): roset
(latte art): rosetta

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

rose

Translations edit

ornamental imitation of a rose

Bulgarian: розетка (bg) f (rozetka)
Czech: rozeta f, růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
Italian: coccarda (it) f
Norwegian: rosett m
Polish: rozeta (pl) f
Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: розета f

architectural ornament

Bulgarian: розетка (bg) f (rozetka)
Czech: rozeta f, růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
Norwegian: rosett m
Polish: rozeta (pl) f
Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: розета f
Slovene: rozeta f

A red color

Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ружичаста

rose burner — see rose burner

botany: one or more whorls of leaves

Czech: růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: розета f

botany: type of plant growth

Czech: růžice f
Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
Serbo-Croatian: розета

zoology: structure having a flowerlike form

Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: розета f

zoology: flowerlike color marking

Finnish: täplä (fi)

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)