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/ɹə(ʊ)ˈzɛlə/ · noun
A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands..
Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella, hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.
Rosellas, a fruit, I imagine, not very well known, we grew most successfully, its delicious sub-acid making the most splendid substitute for the English red currant; and we varied its uses by transforming the raw material into jam and jelly, and freshly-stewed fruit.
[T]he rosella bush was coming in; the cricket-ball nuts on the baobabs were ripening.
Use rosella when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rosella means A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands..
Common synonyms include rosehill, rosehiller.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella, hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.
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