noun. An ornament or badge made of ribbon or silk that is pleated or gathered to resemble a rose and is given as an award, used to decorate clothing, or worn in the buttonhole of civilian dress to indicate the possession of certain medals or honors.

noun. A roselike marking or formation, such as one of the clusters of spots on a leopard's fur.

noun. A painted, carved, or sculptured ornament having a circular arrangement of parts radiating out from the center and suggesting the petals of a rose.

noun. A circular cluster of leaves that radiate from a center at or close to the ground, as in the dandelion.

noun. An ornamental circular band surrounding the central hole of an acoustic guitar.

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noun. In electricity: A cluster of glow-lamps or of sockets arranged for the mounting of such lamps.

noun. An electrical fixture used when a branch is to be taken from the main wires. It consists, usually, of a porcelain base, which is fastened to a ceiling or other support, and a porcelain cover through a hole in which the branch wires run. Removing the cover disconnects the branch wires from the mains.

noun. Any circular ornament having many small parts in concentric circles, or regularly arranged around the center.

noun. Specifically— In architecture, an ornament of frequent use in decoration in all styles. In Roman architecture rosettes decorate coffers in ceilings and soffits of cornices, and appear as a central ornament of the abacus of the Corinthian order. In medieval architecture rosettes are abundant, and consist usually of a knot of foliage inscribed in a circle, trefoil, or quatrefoil. See also cut under patera.

noun. A knot of ribbon or a bunch of colored worsted used as an ornament of costume, especially one of the two bunches of ribbons attached to the loops by which an officer's gorget was suspended on his chest.

noun. Any object or arrangement resembling in form a full-blown rose.

noun. Same as roset.

noun. In zoology and anatomy, a natural formation of parts resembling a rose. See rose, 9.

noun. A curve whose polar equation is r = a + sin mθ, which presents a great variety of forms symmetrical about a center.

noun. Nautical, a form of knot.

noun. In metallurgy, a disk or plate formed by throwing water on melted metal. See rosette-copper, and compare quenching, 2.

noun. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

noun. An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.

noun. A red color. See Roset.

noun. A rose burner. See under Rose.

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noun. 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.

noun. A flowerlike color marking.

noun. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.

noun. An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.

noun. A red color.

noun. A rose burner.

noun. One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.

noun. A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.

noun. Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.

noun. A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.

noun. A floral pattern in latte art.

noun. A clustered formation of tumor cells.

noun. a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)

noun. circular window filled with tracery

noun. an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor

noun. rhizoctinia disease of potatoes

"-- It is worked at the same time both round the bosom and sleeves. 1st round: * 1 double in the centre purl of the 1st scallop of the rosette, which we will call the _first rosette_; 5 chain,"

leaf rosette  red button  red rosette  

rose  

adornment  foliage  leaf  leafage  rhizoctinia disease  

Annette  Antoinette  Bernadette  Bizet  Bret  

bracelet  brocade  buckle  cockade  doublet  

Danish pastry  French pastry  baklava  blintz  chocolate eclair  

rose  roset  sand  spicule