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語源

rose +‎ -ness

名詞

roseness (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The quality of being a rose (type of flower).
   • 2015, Loren Berengere, Infinity and the Supermen (page 367)

     […] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose.

2. (biology) The property of being a rose comb.
   • 1909, The Eugenics Review (volume 1, page 136)

     A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.

アナグラム

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