rosette
part of speech
noun (a rosette, rosettes)
meaning for a pupil
1) A round badge made of ribbon, given as a prize, for example at a horse or pet show. tree →
2) A rose-shaped decoration in building or on clothes. tree →
3) (science) A ring of leaves growing from one point near the ground, like a dandelion's. tree →
4) Rosette is also a girl's name. tree →
sense in the lessons
At shows and gymkhanas, winners get rosettes (red, blue, yellow by place). Political supporters wear rosettes. In science, plants like dandelions grow leaves in a rosette. Phrases: «a red rosette», «win a rosette».
examples
- My pony won a blue rosette at the show. tree →
- Our dog got a rosette for best tail. tree →
- The candidates wore party rosettes. tree →
- A dandelion's leaves grow in a rosette. tree →
- She pinned the rosette to her jacket. tree →
- The ceiling has a plaster rosette around the light. tree →
- Rosette thought she had never seen anything so pretty. tree →
note
Pronounced roh-ZET. Countable. Rosette colours differ by country: in the UK red is first; in the US and Canada blue is often first.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rosette» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.