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ROZELLE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rozelle mean?

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

1. East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

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

Dictionary entry details

• ROZELLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Hibiscus sabdariffa; Jamaica sorrel; red sorrel; roselle; rozelle; sorrel

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

hibiscus (any plant of the genus Hibiscus)

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