rose
- noun
- /roʊz/
- Planted with over 5,000 rose bushes, this garden virtually resonates with color and perfume.
- red rose
- rose petals
- rose garden
So the red rose, the quality of the Rose is its redness.
- So the red rose, the quality of the Rose is its redness.
- This is the John Brown rose and the Midnight cat.
Examples
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Now when you plant roses, what do you get?
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You know the bank sends you a dozen red roses?
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What do you use these roses for?
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I like the white roses because they show up in the dark.
Academic text (1998) -
As Nola reached the altar, he picked a rose from a bouquet and gave it to her.
Fiction book (1990) -
Their sincerity was evidenced by the dozen red roses they presented to me on my last day.
Academic text (1993) -
The garden was filled with beautiful roses of various colors, attracting many visitors.
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She received a lovely bouquet of roses for her birthday, each with a sweet fragrance.
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During the festival, they decorated the stage with fresh roses to enhance the atmosphere.
Synonyms
A bush that grows roses
A garden bush with large pink or yellow flowers that have a nice smell
A climbing rose with loose clusters of small sweet smelling flowers
A wild rose bush that has prickly stems and pink or white flowers
A small bushy rose from China that gardeners grow for its bright flowers
A pink rose with a strong sweet smell that people grow for perfume and rose oil
A large pink rose with a strong sweet smell grown for rose oil
A Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers and a sweet tea smell
A small bush rose from China that people used to make many garden roses and that blooms all year
A small rose bush that grows strongly and makes many small flowers used for hedges and grafting
A strong bush with small flower groups used for hedges or grafting
A wild rose with prickly stems, sweet-smelling leaves, bright pink flowers, and red fruit
A wild rose with pink or white flowers, red fruit, and prickly stems
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
A way of seeing things as better than they are and ignoring problems
A scented liquid that people make by soaking rose petals in water for cooking and skin care
A large round window with colored glass and stone patterns like a flower, often in cathedrals
A bush with large bell-shaped pink, purple or white flowers that people grow in gardens
A small plant with a thick swollen stem and bright pink or white flowers grown in warm places
- US
A common North American beetle whose young live on roots and adults eat leaves and flowers
A small bush rose from China that people used to make many garden roses and that blooms all year
- Canadian
A flower that grows in bogs with one fragrant bright-pink bloom and wide open petals
A plant with white or pale purple rose-like flowers that bloom in winter often near Christmas
A low plant with pink flowers that grows on cliffs and rocky coasts and is used as ground cover
- Indian
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and sweet-smelling flowers that open at night
A small tree or shrub with large flowers that change from white to deep red through pink as they age
A Chinese bush with large flowers that change from white or pink to deep red in a day
- US
A small tree with large flowers that change from white or pink to deep red in one day
A nearly thornless climbing rose with evergreen leaves and pale yellow or white single flowers
- Specialized
A small rose bush that grows strongly and makes many small flowers used for hedges and grafting
A garden plant with thick green leaves and purplish green flowers that blooms in early spring
- US
A low shrub with rough stems and spreading roots that makes flat clusters of small flowers
A small evergreen shrub with pretty pink or white flowers and scented leaves that grows in dry sunny places
- Indian
A large evergreen tree from India with white sweet-smelling flowers and very hard wood used for building
- US
A large shrub or small tree with spiky stems and pink flower clusters used in gardens
- UK
An evergreen shrub with narrow leaves and fragrant white, pink, or red flower clusters that is poisonous
- UK
A small shiny green beetle whose young eat roots and adults eat leaves and flowers
- Australian
A very tall eucalyptus tree from eastern Australia grown for its strong wood and for parks
A tropical evergreen plant with thick stems and bright pink or red flowers often grown in gardens
- Specialized
A mountain plant with thick pink-tipped leaves and yellow flowers used in herbal medicine
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rose comes from the Latin rosa and the Greek rhodon, old names for the same flower, and similar words are found in Persian and Arabic for this well-known bloom. So rose has long meant the fragrant, often thorny plant whose flowers we call roses.