1. rose(n = noun.plant) rosebush - any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses;
is a kind of bush, shrub
has parts: hip, rose hip, rosehip
is a member of genus rosa, rosa
has particulars: mountain rose, rosa pendulina, ground rose, rosa spithamaea, banksia rose, rosa banksia, dog rose, rosa canina, bengal rose, china rose, rosa chinensis, damask rose, rosa damascena, summer damask rose, briar, brier, eglantine, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, cherokee rose, rosa laevigata, baby rose, japanese rose, multiflora, multiflora rose, rosa multiflora, musk rose, rosa moschata, rosa odorata, tea rose
2. rose(n = noun.food) blush wine, pink wine, rose wine - pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began;
is a kind of vino, wine
3. rose(n = noun.attribute) rosiness - a dusty pink color;
is a kind of pink
has particulars: old rose
Derived form adjective rosy3
rose(s = adj.all) rosaceous, roseate - of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"
1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus
" Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class." [1913 Webster]
2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. Sha. [1913 Webster]
3. A rose window. See
4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump. [1913 Webster]
5. The erysipelas. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments. [1913 Webster]
7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink. [1913 Webster]
8. A diamond. See
1. To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. To perfume, as with roses. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
rose, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 any prickly bush or shrub of the genus Rosa, bearing usu. fragrant flowers generally of a red, pink, yellow, or white colour.
2 this flower.
3 any flowering plant resembling this (Christmas rose; rock rose).
4 a a light crimson colour, pink. b (usu. in pl.) a rosy complexion (roses in her cheeks).
5 a a representation of the flower in heraldry or decoration (esp. as the national emblem of England). b a rose-shaped design, e.g. on a compass card or on the sound-hole of a lute etc.
6 the sprinkling-nozzle of a watering-can or hose.
7 a circular mounting on a ceiling through which the wiring of an electric light passes.
8 a a rose diamond. b a rose-window.
9 (in pl.) used in various phrases to express favourable circumstances, ease, success, etc. (roses all the way; everything's roses).
10 an excellent person or thing, esp. a beautiful woman (English rose; rose between two thorns; not the rose but near it).
--adj. = rose-coloured 1.
--v.tr. (esp. as rosed adj.) make (one's face, a snow-slope, etc.) rosy.
Idiom:
rose-apple
1 a tropical tree of the genus Eugenia, cultivated for its foliage and fragrant fruit.
2 this fruit. rose-bush a rose plant. rose-chafer a green or copper-coloured beetle, Cetonia aurata, frequenting roses. rose-colour the colour of a pale red rose, warm pink.
rose-coloured
1 of rose-colour.
2 optimistic, sanguine, cheerful (takes rose-coloured views). rose comb a flat fleshy comb of a fowl. rose-cut cut as a rose diamond. rose diamond a hemispherical diamond with the curved part cut in triangular facets. rose-engine an appendage to a lathe for engraving curved patterns. rose-fish a bright red food fish, Sebastes marinus, of the N. Atlantic. rose geranium a pink-flowered sweet-scented pelargonium, Pelargonium graveolus. rose-hip = HIP(2). rose-leaf (pl.
-leaves)
1 a petal of a rose.
2 a leaf of a rose. rose madder a pale pink pigment. rose-mallow = HIBISCUS. rose nail a nail with a head shaped like a rose diamond. rose of Jericho a resurrection plant, Anastatica hierochuntica.
rose of Sharon
1 a species of hypericum, Hypericum calycinum, with dense foliage and golden-yellow flowers: also called AARON'S BEARD.
2 Bibl. a flowering plant of unknown identity. rose-pink = rose-colour, rose-coloured. rose-point a point lace with a design of roses. rose-red adj. red like a rose, rose-coloured.
--n. this colour. rose-root a yellow-flowered plant, Rhodiola rosea, with roots smelling like a rose when dried or bruised. rose-tinted = rose-coloured. rose-tree a rose plant, esp. a standard rose. rose-water perfume made from roses. rose-window a circular window, usu. with roselike or spokelike tracery. see through rose-coloured (or -tinted ) spectacles regard (circumstances etc.) with unfounded favour or optimism. under the rose in confidence; under pledge of secrecy. Wars of the Roses hist. the 15th-c. civil wars between Yorkists with a white rose as an emblem and Lancastrians with a red rose.
Derivative:
roseless adj. roselike adj.
rose, past of RISE.
N beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal, aesthetics, callaesthetics, pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty, symmetry, comeliness, fairness, polish, gloss, good effect, good looks, belle tournure, trigness, bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence, sublimity, sublimification, concinnity, delicacy, refinement, charm, je ne sais quoi, style, Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus, peacock, butterfly, garden, flower of, pink of, bijou, jewel, work of art, flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower, rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower, pleasurableness, beautifying, landscaping, landscape gardening, decoration, calisthenics, beauty, hunk (of men), beautiful, beauteous, handsome, gorgeous, pretty, lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing, attractive, delicate, dainty, refined, fair, personable, comely, seemly, bonny, good-looking, well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned, proper, shapely, symmetrical, harmonious, sightly, fit to be seen, passable, not amiss, goodly, dapper, tight, jimp, gimp, janty, jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy, bright, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked, rosy, ruddy, blooming, in full bloom, brilliant, shining, beamy, beaming, sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing, glossy, sleek, rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious, artistic, artistical, aesthetic, picturesque, pictorial, fait a peindre, well-composed, well grouped, well varied, curious, enchanting becoming, ornamental, undeformed, undefaced, unspotted, spotless, auxilium non leve vultus habet, beauty born of murmuring sound, flowers preach to us if we will hear, gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus, none but the brave deserve the fair, thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty.
N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.
N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.
baby rose, banksia rose, bengal rose, bog rose, cherokee rose, china rose, christmas rose, cliff rose, coffee rose, common rose mallow, confederate rose, confederate rose mallow, cotton rose, damask rose, desert rose, dog rose, ground rose, guelder rose, gypsy rose lee, japanese rose, lenten rose, memorial rose, mountain rose, multiflora rose, mus rose, musk rose, old rose, provence rose, rock rose, rose acacia, rose apple, rose bay, rose bed, rose beetle, rose bug, rose campion, rose chafer, rose chestnut, rose colored, rose family, rose garden, rose geranium, rose globe lily, rose gum, rose hip, rose leek, rose louise hovick, rose mallow, rose moss, rose of china, rose of jericho, rose of sharon, rose oil, rose periwinkle, rose pink, rose quartz, rose water, rose window, rose wine, rush rose, summer damask rose, sun rose, swamp rose mallow, tea rose, william rose benet, wind rose, winter rose