rose

1a :  any of a genus (Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose 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 cultivationb :  the flower of a rose

2 :  something resembling a rose in form: such asa (1) :  compass card (2) :  a circular card with radiating lines used in other instrumentsb :  a rosette especially on a shoec :  rose cut

3 roses plural :  an easy or pleasant situation or task it was not all sunshine and roses — Anthony Lewis

4 :  a moderate purplish red

5 :  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 nθ or ρ = a cos nθ where n is an integer greater than zero

1a :  containing or used for rosesb :  of or relating to a rosec :  flavored, scented, or colored with or like roses

2 :  of the color rose

Irwin A. 1926–2015 American biologist

:  a light pink table wine made from red grapes by removing the skins after fermentation has begun

past of rise

1 :  a showy and usually fragrant white, yellow, pink, or red flower that grows on a prickly shrub

2 :  a medium pink

1a:  any of a genus (Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose family) of usually prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers of which some are sources of rose oilb:  the flower of a rose

2:  erysipelas