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wind-rose|ˈwɪndrəʊz|
[f. wind n.1 + rose n.; in sense 2 after G. windrose (cf. rose n. 14 c).]
1. Name for several papaveraceous plants, or their flowers:
a. the ‘bastard wild poppy’, Argemone mexicana, or the common wild poppy, Papaver Rhœas;
b. the violet horned poppy, Rœmeria hybrida.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxx. 301 The bastard wilde Poppie is called..in English winde Rose, and bastarde wilde Poppie. 1874Treas. Bot. Suppl., Rose, Wind, Römeria hybrida.
2. Meteorol. A diagram indicating the relative frequency, force, etc. of (or the temperature, etc. accompanying) the winds from the various points of the compass at some given place.
1846Sabine tr. Humboldt's Cosmos I. 310 Tables of atmospheric pressure accompanying different winds, which have received the name of barometric windroses. 1883R. H. Scott Elem. Meteorol. ix. 166 The best mode of publishing the records for different stations is the construction of ‘wind-roses’. Ibid. xiv. 278 Dr. Hann..has calculated the prevalent winds and the thermal windroses for a great number of stations. |