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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A young or miniature rose.

   "To be a mere crushed flower — a roseling killed By passion's first fierce gale — were not my aim."

2. 2
   An herb of the spiderwort family, genus Callisia.

Example

More examples

"To be a mere crushed flower — a roseling killed By passion's first fierce gale — were not my aim."

Etymology

From rose + -ling.

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