rosette > define

noun

• An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor.
• Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes.
  • synonyms: little potato, russet scab, stem canker
• A cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground. )
• Circular window filled with tracery.
  • synonyms: rose window

• (n.) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
• (n.) An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
• (n.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
• (n.) A rose burner. See under Rose.
• (n.) A red color. See Roset.
• (n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.