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ROSETTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rosette mean?
• ROSETTE (noun)
The noun ROSETTE has 4 senses:
1. an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
2. rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
3. a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
4. circular window filled with tracery
Familiarity information: ROSETTE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rosette" is a kind of...):
adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
little potato; rosette; russet scab; stem canker
Hypernyms ("rosette" is a kind of...):
rhizoctinia disease (disease caused by rhizoctinia or fungi of Pellicularia and Corticium)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("rosette" is a kind of...):
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Circular window filled with tracery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
rose window; rosette
Hypernyms ("rosette" is a kind of...):
window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)
Context examples
Meg went to the other window, and sewed as if new rosettes for slippers were among the necessaries of life.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It often produces Flexner-Wintersteiner rosettes or Homer-Wright rosettes.
(Differentiated Retinoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A fibromyxoid sarcoma that may have poorly formed collagen rosettes, but lacks prominent, well formed collagen rosettes.
(Classical Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Approximately 40% of cases show the focal presence of collagen rosettes.
(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is composed of small, uniform, mature cells resembling pineocytes with occasional large pineocytomatous rosettes.
(Pineocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
T lymphocyte cells form rosettes with sheep erythrocytes and, in the presence of transforming agents (mitogens), differentiate and divide.
(Murine T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
Microscopically, it is characterized by neuroblastic differentiation with occasional formation of rosettes.
(Olfactory Neuroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Microscopically, it is characterized by the absence of malignant characteristics and the absence of rosettes formation.
(Olfactory Neurocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is a low grade tumor characterized by the presence of bland spindle-shaped fibroblasts, poorly-formed collagen rosettes, and myxoid and fibrocytic stroma formation.
(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma with Giant Collagen Rosettes, NCI Thesaurus)
Key histological features include perivascular pseudorosettes and ependymal rosettes.
(Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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