burl vs rosette

burl

noun
  • A knot or lump in thread or cloth. 

  • Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. 

  • A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot. 

verb
  • To remove the knots in cloth. 

rosette

noun
  • A form of knot. 

  • A clustered formation of tumor cells. 

  • An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration. 

  • One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant. 

  • A rosette sampler. 

  • A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream. 

  • An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge. 

  • A floral pattern in latte art. 

  • A red color. 

  • A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom. 

  • A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape. 

  • A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard. 

  • Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. 

  • A rose burner. 

  • A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal. 

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