1895 E. Bonavia Stud. Evol. Animals ii. 89 I have shown that originally the rosetting of the Horses must have been closely assimilated to that of the Jaguar.

1910 Jrnl. Physiol. 40 Suppl. p. xxxvi When a frog is injected with an amount of viperine venom that just suffices to produce ‘fluid’ blood,..no rosetting of the red blood corpuscles occurs.

1915 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 2 436 These may yield offspring with tendencies toward rosetting, leaf rolling, and other morphological modifications.

1948 I. E. Melhus & G. C. Kent Elem. Plant Path. x. 246 These plants nearly always remain dwarfed and often show a ‘rosetting’ caused by the increase in the number of branches and the shortening of the internodes.

1962 Jrnl. Allergy & Clin. Immunol. 69 120/2 Monocyte depleted T and B cells were separated by sheep-RBC rosetting.

1990 Lancet 15 Dec. 1457/1 It has been suggested that rosetting (i.e., adherence of uninfected red blood cells to Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells) also has a role in erythrocyte sequestration and the formation of cerebral malaria.

2009 I. S. E. Bally in R. E. Litz Mango (ed. 2) xii. 417 Internode length is reduced, thereby causing a rosetting effect.

1969 Internat. Arch. Allergy 35 220 Vicarious loss of potentially rosetting cells would distort the results.

1982 Times 23 Oct. 3/4 Cut out by hand any rosetting weeds.

1991 New Scientist 5 Jan. 22/3 More than two-thirds of the children with both mild disease and rosetting parasites had antibodies in their blood that broke up the rosettes.

2005 M. Dono & M. Ferrarini in T. Illidge & P. W. M. Johnson Lymphoma viii. 188 Isolate rosetting cells (i.e. mAb +ve cells) from nonrosetting cells.