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Rosebush

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A flowering rose shrub.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The shrub that roses grow on, a rose plant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The bush or shrub which bears roses.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A shrub which bears roses, commonly of a bushy habit.

n. In Australia, a small tree of the anona family, Eupomatia laurina, yielding a soft, coarse-grained, yellowish-brown wood.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

Word Usage

"I want to know why the drafters of the Adult Use section think an industry that has never caused a single car accident or a single vomit-covered rosebush is being given more restrictions than the industry that causes these things weekly in Charlottesville: alcohol."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shrub bush

Hyponym

sweetbrier multiflora rosa eglanteria eglantine sweetbriar

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