say it: ruh-SET
rosette is a noun meaning "an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rosette come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.