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▪ I. roˈsella1
[App. for Rose-hiller, f. Rose-hill, Paramatta near Sydney: see Morris Austral Eng.]
1. A brightly coloured seed-eating Australian parakeet belonging to the genus Platycercus.
1829Sydney Gaz. 21 July 4/1 The doleful dying quails, And roselles [sic] golden. 1838J. Hawdon Jrnl. 15 Mar. in Journey New South Wales to Adelaide (1952) 51 Parrots now appeared more numerous, Rosellas and others. 1847Leichhardt Jrnl. III. 80 The common white cockatoo, and the Moreton Bay Rosella parrot, were very numerous. 1881Chequered Career 167 The bright-plumaged paraquets and rosellas that are so familiar to the Australian eye. 1941Coast to Coast 1941 86 Thither were transferred..the assortment of rosellas and grass parrots that had in one way or another fallen into captivity. 1966Eastman & Hunt Parrots Austral. p. ix, I rather feel that the Blue-cheeked is a very beautiful connecting link between Pale-headed and Northern Rosellas.
2. Austral. and N.Z. A sheep whose wool is beginning to fall off naturally, and which is therefore easy to shear.
1849D. McLeod in Stephen's Adelaide Miscell. III. 81 At shearing he..pick[s] all the ‘Rosellas’ (clean-bellied sheep). 1910C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track 193 If there is an old ewe in the pen, a ‘rosella’ as they call her, with most of the lower wool worn off, she goes the first. 1954E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (ed. 2) i. xv. 130 An old hand..would..quickly catch and shear all the ‘rosellas’, or easily shorn sheep. 1972J. S. Gunn in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. iii. 60 Few shearers recognised flyer, cop, gunbarrel..as terms for what is usually called a barebelly or rosella.
▪ II. roˈsella2, roˈselle
Also rozelle.
[Perh. a corruption of the French name l'oseille (sorrel) de Guinée.]
The red or Indian sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
1857Tait's Mag. XXIV. 164 (India.) Fields of the beautifully rosy-tinted roselle. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Roselle... Its calyxes..are much employed for making tarts, jellies, and refreshing drinks: a fibre, also known as gayal fibre, is obtained from the stem. 1887H. W. Daly Digging & Squatting 122 Rosellas we grew most successfully... My mother managed to invent Rosella syrup, one of our most refreshing beverages. 1890Watt Dict. Econ. Prod. India IV. 243 The seeds of the Rozelle are used medicinally. |