Definitions

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

  • noun A flowering rose shrub.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shrub which bears roses, commonly of a bushy habit.
  • noun In Australia, a small tree of the anona family, Eupomatia laurina, yielding a soft, coarse-grained, yellowish-brown wood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The bush or shrub which bears roses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The shrub that roses grow on, a rose plant.

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

  • noun any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

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Examples

  • 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.

    City to Overhaul Zoning Regulations at cvillenews.com 2003

  • On each of the branches I put little tags with notes about cultivating our future love and marriage, I made him read each one before he planted the bush, Now our rosebush is a reminder of our love and how, with tenderness, nourishment, and care, it will continue to bloom and grow.

    No Time For Sex David Arp 2004

  • On each of the branches I put little tags with notes about cultivating our future love and marriage, I made him read each one before he planted the bush, Now our rosebush is a reminder of our love and how, with tenderness, nourishment, and care, it will continue to bloom and grow.

    No Time For Sex David Arp 2004

  • a rosebush could be a weed in a corn field, Queen Ann's Lace has a lovely fragrance ...

    Queen Anne's Lace regina doman 2008

  • You can set up in a blind, behind a tree, in a rosebush, wherever you can get good cover from a turkey's prying eyes.

    Turkey Hunting Basics 2009

  • I thought about my bicycle, dropped beside the dead rosebush outside, imagined it was a rocket ship and somewhere there was a planet where you could eat when you wanted and everybody's hearing was perfect.

    1981, What I Wanted Sheldon Lee Compton 2011

  • We went around the back of the house, past a rosebush growing wildly up to the garden shed.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • I, too, am a rosebush, and sometimes I forget that.

    mise-en-scène - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • "This is a rosebush, your majesty," Rose's mother replies.

    A Royal Romp For the Little People Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • You can set up in a blind, behind a tree, in a rosebush, wherever you can get good cover from a turkey's prying eyes.

    Turkey Hunting Basics 2009

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