rosenessn.
/ˈrəʊznᵻs/, U.S. /ˈroʊznᵻs/ 1. Biology. With reference to poultry: the property of having or being a rose comb. Now rare.Used chiefly in connection with experimental studies of inheritance.
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1908 R. C. Punnett in Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 1907–8 Epidemiol. section 147 A rose comb is a single in which an additional element of roseness is present; a single comb is a single because this additional element is absent.
1912 Amer. Naturalist 46 133 Sometimes a prominent character is represented by a single determiner like (perhaps) roseness of the comb of the fowl.
1921 F. L. Platt Amer. Breeds Poultry iii. 48 A pure rose comb, inheriting roseness from both sire and dam, may be indicated by the letters R R.
2. The state or quality of being a rose; the properties characteristic of a rose.
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1943 H. W. Rickett Green Earth 187 Thus do we encounter the second problem of reproduction, the problem of heredity: what was in the single cell, the zygote, that made for the tulipy of the tulip, the roseness of the rose?
2007 R. M. Perez-Teran Mayorga From Realism to ‘Realicism’ 6 Would roseness in that sense be destroyed if all roses died off?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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