rose1

noun

• 1a prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions and widely grown as an ornamental.

  • Genus Rosa, family Rosaceae (the rose family); many species, hybrids, and cultivars. This large family includes most temperate fruits (apple, plum, peach, cherry, blackberry, strawberry) as well as the hawthorns, rowans, and potentillas
• the flower of a rose bush:he sent her a dozen red roses
• used in names of other plants whose flowers resemble roses, e.g. Christmas rose, rose of Sharon.

• 2a stylized representation of a rose in heraldry or decoration, typically with five petals (especially as a national emblem of England):the Tudor rose

• 3 [mass noun] a warm pink or light crimson colour:the rose and gold of dawn [as modifier]:the 100% cotton range is available in rose pink and ocean blue [in combination]:leaves with rose-red margins
• (usually roses) used in reference to a rosy complexion:the fresh air will soon put the roses back in her cheeks

• 4 (roses) used to refer to favourable circumstances or ease of success:all is not roses in the firm today

• 5a perforated cap attached to a shower, the spout of a watering can, or the end of a hose to produce a spray.

• 6short for compass rose.

verb

• make rosy:a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks