ROSEHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rosehip mean? 

• ROSEHIP (noun)
  The noun ROSEHIP has 1 sense:

1. the fruit of a rose plant

  Familiarity information: ROSEHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSEHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fruit of a rose plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hip; rose hip; rosehip

Hypernyms ("rosehip" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("rosehip" is a part of...):

rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)

 Context examples 

The University of Szeged researchers found that the rosehip neurons form synapses with another type of neuron in a different part of the human cortex, known as pyramidal neurons.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If you think of all inhibitory neurons like brakes on a car, the rosehip neurons would let your car stop in very particular spots on your drive.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

What appears to be unique about rosehip neurons is that they only attach to one specific part of their cellular partner, indicating that they might be controlling information flow in a very specialized way.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Allen Institute group, in collaboration with researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute, found that the rosehip cells turn on a unique set of genes, a genetic signature not seen in any of the mouse brain cell types they've studied.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One of his laboratory team's immediate next steps is to look for rosehip neurons in postmortem brain samples from people with neuropsychiatric disorders to see if these specialized cells might be altered in human disease.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Tamás and University of Szeged doctoral student Eszter Boldog dubbed these new cells rosehip neurons — to them, the dense bundle each brain cell's axon forms around the cell's center looks just like a rose after it has shed its petals, he said.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)