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ROSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dusty pink color
Synonyms:
rose; rosiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rose" is a kind of...):
pink (a light shade of red)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rose"):
old rose (a greyish-pink color)
Derivation:
rosy (of blush color)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
Synonyms:
blush wine; pink wine; rose; rose wine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("rose" is a kind of...):
vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
Synonyms:
rose; rosebush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rose" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Meronyms (parts of "rose"):
hip; rose hip; rosehip (the fruit of a rose plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rose"):
mountain rose; Rosa pendulina (European alpine rose with crimson flowers)
ground rose; Rosa spithamaea (low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers)
banksia rose; Rosa banksia (Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers)
dog rose; Rosa canina (prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe)
Bengal rose; China rose; Rosa chinensis (shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses)
damask rose; Rosa damascena; summer damask rose (large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids)
briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier (Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips)
Cherokee rose; Rosa laevigata (Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms)
baby rose; Japanese rose; multiflora; multiflora rose; Rosa multiflora (vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock)
musk rose; Rosa moschata (rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers)
Rosa odorata; tea rose (any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("rose" is a member of...):
genus Rosa; Rosa (large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of something having a dusty purplish pink color
Example:
the roseate glow of dawn
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple of the verb rise
Context examples:
A woman was sitting beside him, who rose as we entered.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“See what it is to be a traveller. Right! And the amounts increase, you see, as he rose in rank.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He rose and quitted the room with my nurse, and in a moment my father entered it.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I rose from my place with something of an effort and gave him what he asked.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Holmes rose, motioning us to remain seated.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Lothian rose with a paper in his hand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Suddenly, however, a flash of intelligence had come over his sodden features, and he rose and staggered for the door.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The small rose ears are folded back.
(Greyhound, NCI Thesaurus)
His large tolerance rose up in him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Good-bye, and thank you very much," returned the girl; and the Monkeys rose into the air and were out of sight in a twinkling.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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