Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An aromatic evergreen Mediterranean shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) having light blue or pink flowers and grayish-green leaves that are used in cooking and perfumery.
- n. The leaves of this plant used as a seasoning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An evergreen shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, native in southern Europe, widely cultivated. (See Rosmarinus.) It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It yields by distillation a light pale essential oil of great fragrance, which is extensively employed in the manufacture of pomatums for the hair. Its leaves are gently stimulant, and are used to some extent in European medicine.
- n. In Australia, any one of several species of the genus Westringia, belonging to the mint family, especially W. Dampieri, whose resemblance to the rosemary of Europe led Dampier to give its name to Rosemary Island in the Dampier archipelago.
Wiktionary
- n. a shrub that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery
- n. extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats
Etymologies
- From Latin ros ("dew") marinus ("marine, of the sea") (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English rosmarine, from Latin rōs marīnus, sea dew : rōs, dew + marīnus, of the sea; see marine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Meanwhile, the rosemary is doing just fine now, and the hardier looking specimens have their permanent home, where they're definitely thriving.”
“I'm happy to report that the rosemary is now making its way tentatively into the light, with seedlings coming up in four of the pots.”
“Lydia, we'll try the rosemary potato storage method; My rosemary is tiny; I'll buy fresh from the greengrocer until my own is large enough to use for this purpose.”
“Meanwhile even though rosemary is evil incarnate, the parents were nice enough.”
“If the rosemary is starting to form new shoots along its length, break these off to make it easier to push the vegetables up the skewers.”
“When I cut off two branches to use in the bread, the smell was intoxicating; the aroma of freshly picked rosemary is much richer than that of herbs in plastic boxes from the supermarket produce section.”
“Romero (rosemary) rosamarinus officinales: Sometimes used as a seasoning, but most often as a tea, rosemary is a common home remedy for stomach ulcers and inflamations of the appendix and gall bladder.”
“A tonic made from rosemary is taken to sharpen the memory.”
“My rosemary is in a pot and indoors for winter, but hopefully when summer comes it can move outdoors and give me a growth spurt.”
“Fresh rosemary is is procured from the side garden, and a bunch of fresh oregano from the pot out front.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rosemary’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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I Found A Rose
List of words that contain the string of letters "rose" - from aprosexia nasalis to prosectionist.
aprosexia nasalis, prosectionist, erose, roseate, tuberose, morose, grosella, retrosexual, serose, arose, Drosera, haroset and 156 more...
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food collection
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Herbs: How Fragrant, How Delicious
Delicious scents in an edible nibble.
zedoary, zahtar, yarrow, wormwood, wasabi, verbena, valerian, thyme, Thai basil, tarragon, sweet basil, sorrel and 59 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Groceries
strawberries, baby spinach, black beans, cinnamon, oranges, apples, fstg multigrain t..., olive oil, simply orange juice, tomato sauce, wholly guacamole, salt sense and 115 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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#1
Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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the gardener and apothecary's
bryony, chamomile, frond, sweet bay, laurel, monkshood, henbane, hemlock, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lady's mantle and 140 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
Tweets
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Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary –
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly –
born of the sea supposedly,
at Christmas each, in company,
braids a garland of festivity.
Not always rosemary –
since the flight to Egypt, blooming differently.
With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath,
its flowers – white originally –
turned blue. The herb of memory,
imitating the blue robe of Mary,
is not too legendary
to flower both as symbol and as pungency.
Springing from stones beside the sea,
the height of Christ when thirty-three –
not higher – it feeds on dew and to the bee
"hath a dumb language"; is in reality
a kind of Christmas tree.
– Marianne Moore Dec 8, 2007