rose : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation
  attar of roses.
  

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• noun a flower bed in which roses are growing
  rose bed.
  

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• etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc.

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• (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn.

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• (Med.), a variety of roseola.

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• . (Bot.) See under Jamaica.

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• noun large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers
  moss locust; Robinia hispida; bristly locust.
  

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• (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms.

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• . (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline.

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• noun tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit
  Eugenia jambos; jambosa; rose-apple tree.
  
• noun fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections
  

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• (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume.

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• noun a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses
  rose beetle; Cetonia aurata.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also rose bug, and rose chafer. (b) The European chafer.

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• noun common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines
  Macrodactylus subspinosus; rose bug.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer.

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• a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame.

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• (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil.

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• noun an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
  mullein pink; Lychnis coronaria; gardener's delight; dusty miller.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Campion.

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• (Med.), rose cold.

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• noun a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses
  rose beetle; Cetonia aurata.
  
• noun common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines
  Macrodactylus subspinosus; rose bug.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A common European beetle (Cetonia aurata) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; called also rose beetle, and rose fly. (b) The rose beetle (a).

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• (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See Hay fever, under Hay.

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• the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise.

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• names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on Sèvres porcelain.

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• a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. Brilliant, n.

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• . See under Ear.

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• (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.

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• a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines. Craig.

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• noun a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens
  family Rosaceae; Rosaceae.
  

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• (Bot.) the Roseceæ. See Rosaceous.

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• (Med.), rose cold.

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• (Zoöl.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.

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• (Zoöl.), any gall found on rosebushes. See Bedeguar.

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• a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to resemble a rose; a rosette.

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• a rich tint prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis. Fairholt.

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• noun showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers
  common rose mallow; swamp rose mallow; Hibiscus moscheutos; swamp mallow.
  
• noun plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock
  Alcea rosea; Althea rosea.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus Hibiscus, with large rose-colored flowers. (b) the hollyhock .

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• a nail with a convex, faceted head.

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• an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d. Sir W. Scott.

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• noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
  Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; shoeblack plant; Chinese hibiscus; China rose; shoe black.
  

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• . (Bot.) See China rose (b), under China.

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• noun densely tufted fern ally of southwestern United States to Peru; curls up in a tight ball when dry and expands and grows under moist conditions
  Selaginella lepidophylla; resurrection plant.
  
• noun small grey Asiatic desert plant bearing minute white flowers that rolls up when dry and expands when moist
  Anastatica hierochuntica; resurrection plant.
  

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• (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant (Anastatica Hierochuntica) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when moistened; called also resurrection plant.

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• noun Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually three-lobed leaves; widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe
  Hibiscus syriacus.
  

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• (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus). In the Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower.

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• noun a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation
  attar of roses.
  

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• (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief part of attar of roses.

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• noun any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury
  Sabbatia stellaris; bitter floom; Sabbatia Angularis; marsh pink; American centaury.
  

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• a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment.

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• noun a translucent rose-red variety of quartz used for ornaments
  

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• (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.

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• . (Med.) Same as Roseola.

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• (Zoöl.), the small green larva of a black sawfly (Selandria rosæ). These larvæ feed in groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very destructive.

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• noun circular window filled with tracery
  rosette.
  

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• (Arch.), a circular window filled with ornamental tracery. Called also Catherine wheel, and marigold window. Cf. wheel window, under Wheel.

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• (Med.), a variety of roseola. See Roseola.

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• a translation of L. sub rosa, in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.

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• noun struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
  War of the Roses.
  

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• noun struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
  War of the Roses.
  

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• (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.

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