Look up: rosette

1. Rosette
   [pastry] A rosette is a thin, cookie-like deep-fried pastry of Scandinavian (Swedish and Norwegian) origin. Rosettes are traditionally made during Christmas time. They are made using intricately designed irons. The iron is heated to a very high temperature in oil, dipped into the batter, the...
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2. Rosette
   [zoology] A rosette is a rose-like marking or formation found on the fur and skin of some animals, particularly cats of the family Felidae. Rosettes are used to camouflage the animal, either as a defense mechanism or as a stalking tool. Predators use their rosettes to simulate the different ...
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3. Rosette
   [design] A rosette is a round, stylized flower design, used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity. Appearing in Mesopotamia and used to decorate the funeral stele in Ancient Greece. Adopted later in Romaneseque and Renaissance, and also common in the art of Central Asia, spreading...
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4. Rosette
   [botany] In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves, with all the leaves at a single height. Though rosettes usually sit near the soil, their structure is an example of a modified stem. ==Function== Often, rosettes form in perennial plants whose upper foliage dies back with the...
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5. Rosette
   In architecture, the term rosette describes an ornament in the form of a rose or roundel. They are much used in decoration.
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6. Rosette
   [decoration] A rosette roʊˈzɛt is a small, circular device that is presented with a medal. The rosettes are primarily for situations where wearing the medal is deemed inappropriate. Rosettes are issued in nations such as France, Italy and Japan. Rosettes are also sometimes called bowknots...
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7. Rosette
   (language) A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. [Details?] (1997-11-26)
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8. rosette
   A series of whorls of leaves or leaf-like structure produced at the base of the stem, just above the ground.
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9. Rosette
   a growthform in which the leaves are arranged in concentric circles or whorls around a central bud.
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10. rosette
    An abnormal condition in which the leaves form a radial cluster on the stem.
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11. Rosette
    A short, circular cluster of leaves.
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12. rosette
    [n] - a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground) 2. [n] - an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
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13. Rosette
    An arrangement of leaves, such that the leaves radiate out in a circle from a central growing tip.
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14. rosette
    The formation created by the dots that make up four-color images. The dots, in magenta (red), cyan (blue), yellow, and black, overlap each other in a cluster. because the dots are not perfectly round, and because they are turned at angles to each other, this cluster resembles the arrangement of petals in a rose.
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15. Rosette
    The circular decoration round The soundhole of an acoustic guitar
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16. Rosette
    Leaves radiating from a single crown, at ground level.
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17. Rosette
    The formation created by the dots that make up four-colour images. The dots, in magenta (red), cyan (blue), yellow, and black, overlap each other in a cluster. Because the dots are not perfectly round, and because they are turned at angles to each other, this cluster resembles the arrangement of petals in a rose.
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18. rosette
    accessory for apparel Category: Various industries and crafts • a set of strain gauges at a point on the surface of a structure,so arranged that the state of plane strain at the point can be fully determined Category: Standards, measures and testing
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19. Rosette
    A rose-shaped carved decoration.
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20. Rosette
    A painted or sculpted ornament having a circular or radial arrangement of parts resembling rose petals.
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21. Rosette
    Ro·sette noun [ French, dim. of rose a rose. Confer Roset .] 1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge. 2. (Architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or ...
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22. rosette
    <dermatology> A group of organs or other body features, such as leaves or hair, which are clustered and crowned around a common point of attachment. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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23. rosette
    noun an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
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24. rosette
    noun a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
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25. rosette
    (ro-zet´) any structure or formation resembling a rose. the clusters of polymorphonuclear leukocytes around a globule of lipid nuclear material, as observed in the test for disseminated lupus erythematosus. a figure formed by the chromosomes in an early stage of mitosis.
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