rugosa
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- Behind the logs, I piled leaf rot and soil barrowed over from the side lots, and planted bayberry, rugosa roses, and young cedars from the shoreline, as well as mosses from the woods.
- rugosa roses
- Rosa rugosa
- rugosa hybrids
Examples
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Even in winter, rugosa roses are a decorative garden asset.
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She said hydrangeas and rugosa roses of all kinds thrive there, as do many ornamental grasses.
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In 1926, he released the Sarah van Fleet rose, which remains one of the most reliable rugosa roses for the South.
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Rosa Rugosa at 6:45 PM, September 14th, 2009
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#74 Rosa Rugosa
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Care for rugosa roses could not be easier.
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You may already be familiar with rugosa roses from their decorative hips.
Compounds
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A common North American shrub with rust-colored hairs on its young stems that grows near streams
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A North American plant with wrinkled leaves and clusters of yellow flowers
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rugosa as a noun also comes from the Latin ruga, 'wrinkle', and was used for corals or plants with wrinkled walls or leaves. That's why fossils called rugosa have wrinkled shell walls and why the rose Rosa rugosa has deeply veined, wrinkled leaves.