See Also: rosella(medicine)
rosella(1)(dictionary)
rosella(2)(dictionary)

perspicience (iou) and rosella(1) (iou)


perspicience (iou)



perspicience noun.LME-M18.
[Latin perspicientia, from perspicient- pres. ppl stem of perspicere: see PERSPECTIVE noun & verb, -ENCE.]
= PERSPICACITY 1.

rosella(1) (iou)



rosella noun1. E19.
[App. from Rose-hiller, from Rose-hill, Parramatta, near Sydney, Australia.]
Any of various brightly coloured seed-eating Australian parrots of the genus Platycercus, esp. the very common P. eximius (more fully eastern rosella). E19.
A sheep whose wool is beginning to fall off naturally and is therefore easy to shear. Austral. & NZ. M19.