rose see: rise
II. noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Latin rosa; akin to Greek rhodon rose, Persian gul Date: before 12th century
1. any of a genus ( Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose family) of usually prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers having five petals in the wild state but being often double or partly double under cultivation, the flower of a rose, something resembling a rose in form: as, a. compass card , a circular card with radiating lines used in other instruments, a rosette especially on a shoe, rose cut , an easy or pleasant situation or task , a moderate purplish red, a plane curve which consists of three or more loops meeting at the origin and whose equation in polar coordinates is of the form ρ = a sin n θ or ρ = a cos n θ where n is an integer greater than zero, roselike adjective
III. adjective
Date: 14th century
1. containing or used for roses, of or relating to a rose, flavored, scented, or colored with or like roses, of the color rose
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