rosella
Appearance
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rosehill.
Noun
[edit]rosella (plural rosellas)
- A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands. [from 19th c.]
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 138:
- Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella, hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.
Derived terms
[edit]- Brown's rosella (Platycercus venustus)
- crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans)
- eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius)
- green rosella (Platycercus caledonicus)
- northern rosella (Platycercus venustus)
- pale-headed rosella (Platycercus adscitus)
- smutty rosella (Platycercus venustus)
- Tasmanian rosella (Platycercus caledonicus)
- western rosella (Platycercus icterotis)
Translations
[edit]parrot of the genus Platycercus
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Platycercus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Platycercus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Platycercus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]rosella (countable and uncountable, plural rosellas)
- Alternative form of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 122:
- Rosellas, a fruit, I imagine, not very well known, we grew most successfully, its delicious sub-acid making the most splendid substitute for the English red currant; and we varied its uses by transforming the raw material into jam and jelly, and freshly-stewed fruit.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rosa + -ella, literally “small rose”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rosella f (plural roselles)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rosella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rosella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “rosella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rosella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rosella
- rosella (parrot of the genus Platycercus)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of rosella (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rosella | rosellat | |
genitive | rosellan | roselloiden roselloitten rosellojen | |
partitive | rosellaa | roselloita roselloja | |
illative | rosellaan | roselloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rosella | rosellat | |
accusative | nom. | rosella | rosellat |
gen. | rosellan | ||
genitive | rosellan | roselloiden roselloitten rosellojen rosellain rare | |
partitive | rosellaa | roselloita roselloja | |
inessive | rosellassa | roselloissa | |
elative | rosellasta | roselloista | |
illative | rosellaan | roselloihin | |
adessive | rosellalla | roselloilla | |
ablative | rosellalta | roselloilta | |
allative | rosellalle | roselloille | |
essive | rosellana | roselloina | |
translative | rosellaksi | roselloiksi | |
abessive | rosellatta | roselloitta | |
instructive | — | roselloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hypernyms
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