Rosemary vs. Rose

Rosemarynoun

A shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.

Rosemarynoun

A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.

Rosemarynoun

widely cultivated for its fragrant gray-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery

Rosemarynoun

extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats

Rosemary

Salvia rosmarinus, commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. Until 2017, it was known by the scientific name Rosmarinus officinalis, now a synonym.

Rosenoun

A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.

Rosenoun

A flower of the rose plant.

Rosenoun

Something resembling a rose flower.

Rosenoun

(heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.

Rosenoun

A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.

Rosenoun

The base of a light socket.

Rosenoun

(mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.

Rosenoun

A graph with only one vertex.

Rosenoun

alternative spelling of rosé

Roseverb

To perfume, as with roses.

Roseadjective

Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.

Rose

imp. of Rise.

Rosenoun

A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.

Rosenoun

A rose window. See Rose window, below.

Rosenoun

A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.

Rosenoun

The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.

Rosenoun

The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.

Rosenoun

A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.

Roseverb

To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.

Roseverb

To perfume, as with roses.

Rosenoun

any of many plants of the genus Rosa

Rosenoun

pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

Rosenoun

a dusty pink color

Roseadjective

having a dusty purplish pink color;

Rosenoun

any light pink wine, coloured by only brief contact with red grape skins

Roseverb

make rosy

Rose

A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars.