ROSETTE
Rosette
In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves, with all the leaves at a similar height.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Rosette (botany)
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rosette
Noun
- An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
- An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
- A red color.
- A rose burner.
- One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- A floral pattern in .
- A clustered formation of tumor cells.
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