rosalind

/rəˈzælɪnd/

Definitions

1. proper noun

a female given name, especially one derived from the name of the character in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, or a place name.

“The young woman’s name was Rosalind, a classic Shakespearean name with a lovely ring to it.”

2. noun

a kind of rose, especially one with pink or white flowers.

“The gardener tended to the beautiful rosalind roses in the garden.”

3. noun

a programming language developed by Rebecca St. Pitman and others for visualising RNA and protein structures.

“The bioinformatics expert used the Rosalind language to create a program for analyzing protein structures.”

Synonyms

  • rosaleen
  • rosaline