rosella

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹə(ʊ)ˈzɛlə/

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rosehill.

A crimson rosella, Platycercus elegans

rosella (plural rosellas)

1. 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.

• crimson rosella
• eastern rosella
• green rosella
• northern rosella
• pale-headed rosella
• western rosella

• lorikeet

rosella (countable and uncountable, plural rosellas)

1. 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.

• loreals

From rosa +‎ -ella, literally “small rose”.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈze.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [roˈze.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [roˈze.ʎa]

rosella f (plural roselles)

1. poppy (plant of the genus Papaver)

   Synonyms: ababol, babol, gall, gallaret

• “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.

From English rosella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroselːɑ/, [ˈro̞s̠e̞lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oselːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ro‧sel‧la

rosella

1. rosella (parrot of the genus Platycercus)

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