ROSEBUSH

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Meaning:

Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

Synonyms:

rose; rosebush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rosebush" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "rosebush"):

hip; rose hip; rosehip (the fruit of a rose plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosebush"):

mountain rose; Rosa pendulina (European alpine rose with crimson flowers)

ground rose; Rosa spithamaea (low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers)

banksia rose; Rosa banksia (Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers)

dog rose; Rosa canina (prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe)

Bengal rose; China rose; Rosa chinensis (shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses)

damask rose; Rosa damascena; summer damask rose (large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids)

briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier (Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips)

Cherokee rose; Rosa laevigata (Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms)

baby rose; Japanese rose; multiflora; multiflora rose; Rosa multiflora (vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock)

musk rose; Rosa moschata (rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers)

Rosa odorata; tea rose (any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("rosebush" is a member of...):

genus Rosa; Rosa (large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses)