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noun A member of the rose family.
noun Any of numerous shrubs or vines of the genus Rosa, having prickly stems, pinnately compound leaves, and variously colored, often fragrant flowers.
noun The flower of any of these plants.

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A shrub of the genus Rosa, or its flower, found wild in numerous species, and cultivated from remote antiquity. In the wild state the rose is generally single, its corolla consisting of one circle of roundish spreading petals. Under cultivation the petals commonly multiply at the expense of the stamens, the flower thus doubling into a cushion-, nest-, or cabbage-shaped body. Starting with a few natural species, cultivation has obtained, through selection and complex intercrossing, many hundred varieties, whose parentage frequently cannot be conjectured. Some, however, remain near their originals, and very many can be referred to certain general stocks. For practical purposes the roses of culture have been loosely grouped as follows: (I) Climbing roses. Here belong the prairie-rose, and its offspring the queen-of-the-prairies, Baltimore belle, etc., and the evergreen, Ayrshire, musk, many-flowered, and Banksian stocks (see below). (2) Garden roses, non-climbers, blooming but once in the season; summer or June roses. Among these are the Scotch roses, derived from the burnet-rose, R. spinosissima (R. pimpinellifolia), a low bush of temperate Europe and Asia; the cinnamon- and damask-roses; the Provins, hundred-leaved, or cabbage rose, R. centifolia, among whose numerous varieties are most of the moss-roses; and the French or red rose, R. Gallica, prolific of variegated and other varieties. These are old favorites, now giving way to the next class. (3) The so-called hybrid perpetuals or autumn roses, best called remontants (see remontant), as blooming not perpetually, but a second time after rest. The characteristic element in this group is from the China or Indian rose, R. Indica. They are large, brilliant, and hardy, afford the great fancy roses of the rosarians, and include such varieties as the Baronne Prévost, General Jacqueminot, and giant-of-battles. The Jacqueminot is forced in immense quantities for the market. (4) Roses blooming continuously. Here may be classed the Bourbons, originating in a cross between the China and a damask variety, a rather tender race, including the Souvenir de Malmaison, a famous standard. More constant bloomers are varieties of the China rose known popularly as monthly roses, also called Bengal roses; the flowers are brilliant and abundant; the plant multiplies readily, and is the best for house culture. Another race of perpetuals is the noisette, derived from the musk-and the tea-rose, mostly climbers. Lastly, here belong the tea-roses, or tea-scented roses, descended from var, odorata of the China rose, a race of numerous and increasing varieties, most extensively cultivated. The large yellow Maréchal (or Marshal) Niel, highly popular for forcing, is by some classed as a tea-rose, by others as a Noisette. In England roses called standards are produced by budding the desired variety on the stock of the common dogrose, or of a vigorous variety known as Manetti; in the American climate most sorts do better on their own stock. The rose in culture has numerous enemies, as the rose-aphis or greenfly, the rose-beetle, the rose-slug, and the red-spider. The most important economical use” of the rose is in the manufacture of attar or oil of roses. (See attar and rose-water.) The petals of the red or French rose are slightly astringent and tonic, and are used in various officinal preparations, chiefly as a vehicle for stronger tonic astringents. The petals of the cabbage-rose are slightly laxative, but are used chiefly in making rose-water. The bright-red hip of some wild roses is ornamental and sometimes edible; that of the dogrose is used to make a confection. The rose is a national emblem of England. As the Roose in his Radness is Richest of floures. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 624. Like the red rose on triumphant brier. Shak., M. N. D., iii. 1. 96.
One of various other plants so named from some resemblance to the true rose. See the phrases below.
A knot of ribbon in the form of a rose, used as an ornamental tie of a hat-band, garter, shoe, etc. My heart was at my mouth Till I had viewed his shoes well; for those roses Were big enough to hide a cloven foot. B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, i. 2. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose. Scott, Marmion, vi., Int.

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S before vowels and unvoiced consonants such as c, f, p, q, s, t is pronounced like the s in the English word rose. — Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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"A rose is a rose is a rose," Raggio said in arguing unsuccessfully for the amendment watering down the bill. — Fort Mill Times: News

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Middle English, from Old English, from Latin rosa.

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from Middle English rose, roose (plural roses, rosen), from Anglo-Saxon rōse (plural rōsan) = Middle Dutch rose, Dutch roos = Old High German rōsa, Middle High German rōse, German rose = Icelandic rōs = Swedish ros = Danish rose = French rose = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian rosa = Old Bulgarian rosa = Bulgarian Servian ruzha = Bohemian ruzhe = Polish rozha = Little Russian ruzha = White Russian rozha = Russian roza = Lithuanian rozhe = Lett, roze = Hungarian rózsa = Irish ros = Gaelic ros = Welsh rhosyn, plural rhos, from Latin rosa, from Greek *ῤοδία (not found), ῤόδον, Æolic Greek βρόδον, a rose, of Eastern origin: cf. Arabic Persian ward, a rose, flower, petal, flowering shrub, Armen. ward, a rose. The Anglo-Saxon rōse (Middle English rose, roose) would reg. produce a modern English *roose; the modern English rose is due partly to the F. form.
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