any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa. Compare rose family .

any of various related or similar plants.

the flower of any such shrub, of a red, pink, white, or yellow color.

the traditional reddish color of this flower, variously a purplish red, pinkish red, or light crimson.

an ornament shaped like or suggesting this flower.

a pink or pinkish-red color in the cheek.

rose window.

Heraldry . a representation of a wild rose with five petals, usually seeded and barbed in a symmetrical design and used esp. as the cadency mark of a seventh son.

any of various diagrams showing directions radiating from a common center, as a compass card or wind rose.

Jewelry .

an obsolete gem style or cut, flat on the bottom and having an upper side with from 12, or fewer, to 32 triangular facets.

a gem with this cut.

a perforated cap or plate, as at the end of a pipe or the spout of a watering pot, to break a flow of water into a spray.

an ornamental plate or socket surrounding the shaft of a doorknob at the face of a door.

Mathematics . a plane polar curve consisting of three or more equal loops that meet at the origin. Equation

r a sin( n? or r a cos( n?

of the color rose.

for, containing, or growing roses

a rose garden.

scented like a rose.

to make rose-colored.

to flush (the face, cheeks, etc.). ?

come up roses, Informal . to turn out all right; result in success, glory

or profit

Despite setbacks, things should come up roses in the long run.

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blush , flush , pink , red , rosette , rouge