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Rose vs Jasmine - What's the difference?

rose | jasmine |

As nouns the difference between rose and jasmine

is that rose is a shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers while jasmine is any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.

As proper nouns the difference between rose and jasmine

is that rose is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} while Jasmine is {{given name|female|from=Persian|}.

As a verb rose

is to make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.

As an adjective rose

is having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.

rose

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardh-'', compare Sanskrit ''vardh- , with relatives in Avestan).

Noun

(s)
  • A shrub of the genus Rosa , with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
  • A flower of the rose plant.
  • A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
  • Something resembling a rose flower.
  • (heraldiccharge) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
  • A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
  • A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
  • The base of a light socket.
  • (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
  • (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
  • Verb

    (ros)
  • (poetic) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
  • (poetic) To perfume, as with roses.
  • (Tennyson)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.
  • Derived terms

    * be not a bed of roses * bloom is off the rose * (cabbage rose) * (ceiling rose) * * (China rose) * Christmas rose * come up roses * compass rose * (damask rose) * desert rose * dog rose * English rose * guelder rose * (moss rose) * multiflora rose * musk rose * * (polyantha rose) * (rock-rose), (rock rose) ( ) * (rose acacia) * (rose apple) * (rose beetle) * rose bowl * (rose bug) * (rose campion) * rose chafer * rose cold * rose cut * rose fever * rose geranium * rose hip * (rose mallow) * (rose moss) * (rose of Jericho) * rose of Sharon * rose oil * (rose periwinkle) * rose petal * rose quartz * (rose slug) * rose topaz * rose water * rose window * rosebay rhododendron * (rose-breasted grosbeak) * rosebud * rosebush * rose-coloured glasses, rose-colored glasses * rosefinch * rosefish * rosegarden * rosehip * roseleaf * roseola * rose-petal, rosepetal * rose-pink * rose-red * roseroot * rose syrup * rose-tinted * rosette * rosewater * rosewood * rosy * (rugosa rose) * run for the roses * smell like a rose * (vern, Sturt's desert rose) * (tea rose) * the Wars of the Roses * under the rose * (wild rose) * wind rose

    See also

    * * Aaron's beard * amelanchier * attar/otto * blackberry * bramble * camellia * chamiso * chokeberry * cloudberry * compass card * floribunda * hardhack * hawthorn * Japanese quince * jetbead * Juneberry * lady's mantle * maccaboy * Madagascar periwinkle * mahaleb * mawar * meadowsweet * medlar * midsummer-men * mountain ash * moutain avens * namby-pamby * ninebark * parsley piert * rambler * serviceberry * shadblow * shadbush * silverweed * soapbark * spirea * strawberry * sweet briar * tormentil * viburnum * wild brier

    Etymology 2

    From rise.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rise)
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Statistics

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    jasmine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum , mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.
  • The perfume obtained from these plants.
  • Any of several unrelated plants having a similar perfume.
  • A yellow colour.
  • See also

    * ("jasmine" on Wikipedia) * (Jasminum) * jessamine