[f. WIND sb.1 + ROSE sb.; in sense 2 after G. windrose (cf. ROSE sb. 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, Ræmeria hybrida.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. lxx. 301. The bastard wilde Poppie is called … in English winde Rose, and bastarde wilde Poppie.
1874. Treas. 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.
1846. Sabine, trans. Humboldt’s Cosmos, I. 310. Tables of atmospheric pressure accompanying different winds, which have received the name of barometric windroses.
1883. R. 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.
