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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shrubby hybrid rose (Rosa centifolia) native to Eurasia, having fragrant pink double-petaled flowers and a prickly stem and widely cultivated as a source of attar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A species of rose, Rosa centifolia, of many varieties, with a large, round, compact flower, supposed to have been cultivated from ancient times, and especially suited from its fragrance for the manufacture of rose-water and attar.

Etymologies

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

[From the resemblance of its flower to a head of cabbage .]

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