As proper nouns the difference between rose and ros
is that rose is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} while Ros is {{given name|female|diminutive=Rosalind}}.
As a noun rose
is a shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
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.
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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)
Related terms
* arisen
* arose
* risen
* rising
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .
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