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7 words match “ROSEBUSH”

ROSEBUSH n.
The bush or shrub which bears roses.
BEDEGUAR; BEDEGAR n.
A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
HIP n.
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.
PINNATE; PINNATED a.
lets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.
ROSE n.
lus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also rose bug, and rose chafer. (b) The European chafer. -- Rose bug. (Zoöl.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer. -- Rose burner, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame.…
ROSER n.
A rosier; a rosebush. [Obs.]
ROSIER n.
A rosebush; roses, collectively. [Obs.] Crowned with a garland of sweet rosier. Spenser.