[rose] past of rise
[2]rose n [ME, fr. OE, fr. L rosa; akin to Gk rhodon rose, Per gul] (bef. 12c) 1 a: any of a genus (Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose family) of usu. prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers having five petals in the wild state but being often double or partly double under cultivation b: the flower of a rose
2: something resembling a rose in form: as a (1): compass card (2): a circular card with radiating lines used in other instruments b: a rosette esp. on a shoe c: rose cut 3 pl: a comfortable situation or an easily accomplished task "it was not all sunshine and ~s --Anthony Lewis"
4: a moderate purplish red
5: a plane curve which consists of three or more loops meeting at the origin, whose equation in polar coordinates is r a sin nA or r cos nA where r is the radius vector, A is the angle, n is an integer greater than zero, and a is an arbitrary constant, and which contains n loops when n is an odd integer and 2n loops when n is even -- rose.like adj -- under the rose : sub rosa [3]rose adj (14c) 1 a: containing or used for roses b: of or relating to a rose c: flavored, scented, or colored with or like roses
2: of the color rose ro.se n [F] (1897): a light pink table wine made from red grapes by removing the skins after fermentation has begun