ROSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rosa mean? 

• ROSA (noun)
  The noun ROSA has 1 sense:

1. large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses

  Familiarity information: ROSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rosa; Rosa

Hypernyms ("Rosa" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Rosa"):

rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)

Holonyms ("Rosa" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

 Context examples 

Rosa did not come back; and no other mention was made of her, until I went with Steerforth into his room to say Good night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A quinone antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces rosa var. notoensis with activity against gram-positive bacteria, mycoplasmas and fungi.

(Nanafrocin, NCI Thesaurus)

The observations show that iron vapour is abundant in the atmosphere of the hot day side of WASP-76b," adds María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrobiology in Madrid, Spain, and the chair of the ESPRESSO science team.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

The review was conducted by scientists from different Spanish, European, and American universities, and coordinated by Professor Angel Gil of the University of Granada (UGR) and Professor Rosa M. Ortega of the Complutense University of Madrid.

(Adequate intake of milk and dairy products in different life stages helps prevent chronic diseases, University of Granada)

“What is the matter with Rosa?” said Mrs. Steerforth, coming in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Is Mr. Copperfield informed of everything, Rosa?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was introduced as Miss Dartle, and both Steerforth and his mother called her Rosa.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You want to know what, Rosa?” returned Mrs. Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Therefore I have no other object in this, than what Rosa has mentioned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There's the history of Miss Rosa Dartle for you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)