ROSE

see: rise II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Latin rosa; akin to Greek rhodon ~, Persian gul Date: before 12th century 1. any of a genus ( Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the ~ family) of usually prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers having five petals in the wild state but being often double or partly double under cultivation, the flower of a ~, something resembling a ~ in form: as, a. compass card , a circular card with radiating lines used in other instruments, a ~tte especially on a shoe, ~ cut , an easy or pleasant situation or task , a moderate purplish red, a plane curve which consists of three or more loops meeting at the origin and whose equation in polar coordinates is of the form ρ = a sin n θ or ρ = a cos n θ where n is an integer greater than zero, ~like adjective III. adjective Date: 14th century 1. containing or used for ~s, of or relating to a ~, flavored, scented, or colored with or like ~s, of the color ~