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rosehill

rosehill noun: synonym of rosella (“type of parrot”).

Noun

rosehill (plural rosehills)

  1. Synonym of rosella (“type of parrot”)
    • Our rosehills inhabit a region quite as cold as the south of England, while the Macquarie parrot is the inmate of an island even more bleak […]1827, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, page 326
    Synonyms:
    rosella

Proper noun capitalized: Rosehill

Rosehill

  1. A suburb in borough of Sutton, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2666).
  2. A suburb of Altrincham, Trafford borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ7686).
  3. A hamlet in Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6630).
  4. A suburb of Wallsend, North Tyneside borough, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3166).
  5. A suburb of the city of Aberdeen, Aberdeen council area (OS grid ref NJ9208).
  6. A hamlet in Aberdeenshire council area (OS grid ref NO5499).
  7. A community in Caledon, Ontario, Canada.
  8. A suburb in the Parramatta council area, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  9. A southern suburb of Auckland, near Papakura New Zealand.

Synonyms of rosehill

Forms of rosehill

pluralrosehills

Origin of rosehill

From rose + hill.

Questions about rosehill

What does rosehill mean?
Rosehill means synonym of rosella (“type of parrot”).
What part of speech is rosehill?
Rosehill can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of rosehill?
The plural of rosehill is rosehills.

Words near rosehill in the dictionary

  1. rosehead
  2. roseheads
  3. roseheart radish
  4. roseheart radishes
  5. Rosehearty
  6. rosehill
  7. rosehiller
  8. rosehillers
  9. rosehills
  10. rosehip
  11. rosehip neuron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rosehill (page history and authors); Rosehill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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