資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Rose de Pompadour}, {Rose du Barry}, names succesively given
to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain.
{Rose diamond}, 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.
{Rose ear}. See under {Ear}.
{Rose elder} (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
{Rose engine}, 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.
{Rose family} (Bot.) the {Rosece[ae]}. See {Rosaceous}.
{Rose fever} (Med.), rose cold.
{Rose fly} (Zo["o]l.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
{Rose gall} (Zo["o]l.), any gall found on rosebushes. See
{Bedeguar}.
{Rose knot}, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to
resemble a rose; a rosette.
{Rose lake}, {Rose madder}, a rich tint prepared from lac and
madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
{Rose mallow}. (Bot.)
(a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus
{Hibiscus}, with large rose-colored flowers.
(b) the hollyhock.
{Rose nail}, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
{Rose noble}, 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.
{Rose of China}. (Bot.) See {China rose}
(b), under {China}.
{Rose of Jericho} (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant
({Anastatica Hierochuntica}) which rolls up when dry, and
expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection
plant}.
{Rose of Sharon} (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.
{Rose oil} (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from
various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief
part of attar of roses.
{Rose pink}, 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.
{Rose quartz} (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
{Rose rash}. (Med.) Same as {Roseola}.
{Rose slug} (Zo["o]l.), the small green larva of a black
sawfly ({Selandria ros[ae]}). These larv[ae] feed in
groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and
are often abundant and very destructive.
{Rose window} (Arch.), a circular window filled with
ornamental tracery. Called also {Catherine wheel}, and
{marigold window}. Cf. {wheel window}, under {Wheel}.
{Summer rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola. See {Roseola}.
{Under the rose} [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.
{Wars of the Roses} (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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
rose family
n : a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales;
have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with
numerous stamens [syn: {Rosaceae}, {family Rosaceae}]