• Rosette

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ɹəʊˈzÉ›t/
    • US IPA: /ɹoʊˈzÉ›t/
    • Rhymes: -É›t

    Origin

    From French rosette.

    Full definition of rosette

    Noun

    rosette

    (plural rosettes)
    1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
    2. (architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
    3. A red color.
    4. A rose burner.
    5. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
    6. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
    7. (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.
    8. (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
    9. A floral pattern in latte art.
    10. (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.

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