ROSETTE

Rosette

In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves, with all the leaves at a similar height.

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rosette

Noun

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


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