rose
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- noun
- /roʊz/
- Planted with over 5,000 rose bushes, this garden virtually resonates with color and perfume.
- red rose
- rose petals
- rose garden
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Watch on YouTubeSo 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
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A bush that grows roses
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3.8
A garden bush with large pink or yellow flowers that have a nice smell
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7.2
A climbing rose with loose clusters of small sweet smelling flowers
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6.7
A wild rose bush that has prickly stems and pink or white flowers
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8.8
A pink rose with a strong sweet smell that people grow for perfume and rose oil
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6.8
A large pink rose with a strong sweet smell grown for rose oil
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5.7
A strong bush with small flower groups used for hedges or grafting
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9.9
A wild rose with prickly stems, sweet-smelling leaves, bright pink flowers, and red fruit
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7.5
A wild rose with pink or white flowers, red fruit, and prickly stems
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9.3
A small bushy rose from China that gardeners grow for its bright flowers
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8.4
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
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
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A way of seeing things as better than they are and ignoring problems
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A scented liquid that people make by soaking rose petals in water for cooking and skin care
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7.7
A small plant with a thick swollen stem and bright pink or white flowers grown in warm places
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7.5
A bush with large bell-shaped pink, purple or white flowers that people grow in gardens
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8.2
A large round window with colored glass and stone patterns like a flower, often in cathedrals
- US
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7.3
A common North American beetle whose young live on roots and adults eat leaves and flowers
- Specialized
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6.7
A European plant that keeps green leaves and has white or purple flowers in winter
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8.6
A nearly thornless climbing rose with evergreen leaves and pale yellow or white single flowers
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8.4
A garden plant with thick green leaves and purplish green flowers that blooms in early spring
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7.8
A small evergreen shrub with pretty pink or white flowers and scented leaves that grows in dry sunny places
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6.9
A plant with white or pale purple rose-like flowers that bloom in winter often near Christmas
- UK
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8.3
An evergreen shrub with narrow leaves and fragrant white, pink, or red flower clusters that is poisonous
- US
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9.9
A low shrub with rough stems and spreading roots that makes flat clusters of small flowers
- UK
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6.5
A small shiny green beetle whose young eat roots and adults eat leaves and flowers
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9.5
A plant that lives for many years with silvery fuzzy leaves and bright red flowers
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8.4
A small tree or shrub with large flowers that change from white to deep red through pink as they age
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9.6
A low plant with pink flowers that grows on cliffs and rocky coasts and is used as ground cover
- Indian
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9.9
A large evergreen tree from India with white sweet-smelling flowers and very hard wood used for building
- Australian
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8.2
A very tall eucalyptus tree from eastern Australia grown for its strong wood and for parks
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
- Indian
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and sweet-smelling flowers that open at night
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
- Specialized
A small rose bush that grows strongly and makes many small flowers used for hedges and grafting
- US
A large shrub or small tree with spiky stems and pink flower clusters used in gardens
How Fragrant
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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.