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- Dictionaryrose/rəʊz/
noun
- 1. a prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions and widely grown as an ornamental.
- 2. a stylized representation of a rose in heraldry or decoration, typically with five petals (especially as a national emblem of England): "the Tudor rose"
verb
- 1. make rosy: literary "a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks"
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ROSE definition: 1. past simple of rise 2. a garden plant with thorns on its stems and pleasant-smelling flowers, or…. Learn more.
The rose is a type of flowering shrub. Its name comes from the Latin word Rosa. [1] There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. The flowers of the rose grow in many different colors, from the well-known red rose or yellow rose and sometimes white or purple rose.
The rose is a bulbous, fragrant flower that comes in many different varieties and colors, including red, white, pink, and yellow. They are among the world’s most popular and best-known flowers. The word rose can also refer to the plant on which roses grow, a shrub that’s commonly called a rosebush. Most rose plants are perennial shrubs.
noun (1) ˈrōz. 1. a. : any of a genus (Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose family) of usually prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers having five petals in the wild state but being often double or partly double under cultivation. b. : the flower of a rose. 2. : something resembling a rose in form: such as. a (1) : compass card. (2)
A rose is a flower, often with a pleasant smell, which grows on a bush with stems that have sharp points called thorns on them. She bent to pick a red rose. ...a bunch of yellow roses. 3. countable noun B1. A rose is bush that roses grow on. Prune rambling roses when the flowers have faded. ...fragrant rose bushes. 4. colour.
A rose is a flower that people in love give each other. Even though Juliet says to Romeo, “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” don’t go calling it a dandelion. Roses have multi-layered petals and smell wonderfully sweet.
ROSE definition: 1. a flower with a pleasant smell and thorns (= sharp points on the stem), that grows on a bush…. Learn more.
Definition of rose noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The flower or a flowering stem of any of numerous wild and cultivated plants of the genus Rosa (see sense A.I.2a ); esp. the large, many-petalled flower of any of the numerous cultivated varieties of this plant, typically red, white, or yellow, and often scented, but also occurring in a wide variety of other forms and colours.
noun. roses. A member of the rose family. American Heritage. Similar definitions. Any of a genus ( Rosa) of shrubs of the rose family, characterized by prickly stems, pinnate leaves, and fragrant flowers with five petals that are usually white, yellow, or, often specif., red or pink. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.
