Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A perennial plant (Sedum rosea) of the Northern Hemisphere, having fleshy leaves and greenish-yellow or purple flowers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A succulent herb, Sedum Rhodiola, having simple leafy stems 5 to 10 inches high, broad thick leaves, yellowish or purplish flowers in a close cyme, and a rose-scented root. It grows on cliffs in northern Europe and Asia, and in North America in eastern Pennsylvania, Maine, and northward. Also
rosewort .
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Eurasian mountain plant with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers
Etymologies
- rose + root (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A large species of broom, four or five feet high, covered with golden blossom the size of pea-flowers, although the common broom had long passed its blooming, now showed itself as well as roseroot sedum, neither of which had I seen while coming over the schist.”
“Another closely related plant with exquisite orange-red flowers, which in some books bears the Latin name sedum is roseroot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roseroot’.
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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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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "'This one is just wild spinach,' she explains, showing me the photograph of Arctic dock. 'And this one—roseroot—you let it ferment, and it's really good.'"
—James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 244 Sep 17, 2008