Definitions

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  • noun The hardy rose Rosa multiflora

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  • noun vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock

Etymologies

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From the New Latin species epithet multiflora ("many flowers")

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Examples

  • Adding to its problems are invasive plants, such as multiflora rose, honeysuckle bush and autumn olive, that drive out the rabbits 'preferred cover and food, plus the increase in whitetail deer, which compete with the cottontail for food.

    Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2009

  • I weed the woods, removing the garlic mustard and multiflora roses as religiously as the neighbors mow their patches.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Weird and Wonderful: Mowing the Lawn 2010

  • Some people are actually out enjoying their lawns and their ticks and their multiflora roses.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Weird and Wonderful: Mowing the Lawn 2010

  • Since I don't deadhead the climbers, I am blessed with assorted decorative rose hips in a great variety of sizes, shapes and colors from the tiny red pearls on Rosa multiflora to the bright orange babbles on "Mme Gregoire Staechelin."

    Suzy Bales: Roses as Climbers, Ramblers and Scramblers 2009

  • The unchecked aggression of the multiflora rosa combined with the native brambles and century-old grapevines provide a woods of the haunted variety.

    Me and the Michigan Militia scusteister 2008

  • She was often the first to venture out of the largest of the walnut trees where they made their home, the tree draped with wild grapes, multiflora roses, bittersweet, honeysuckle and poison ivy so heavily that it resembled a tall giantess with flowing scarves.

    The Sisters Squirrel « Fairegarden 2008

  • In ravines and gallery forests species indicative of a south Guinean climate are present, with lianes very abundant, and species such as Raphia sudanica, Baissea multiflora, Nauclea latifolia, Dalbergia saxatilis, and Landolphia dulcis.

    Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal 2008

  • Blooming not in spring, but rather July, this scadoxus multiflora is other worldly in its beauty.

    Pretties For You « Fairegarden 2008

  • Representative species are Pinus oocarpa (which crosses with P. caribaea where their distributions overlap, although belonging to subsections of different genera), Podocarpus guatemalensis and Quercus spp., and in still wetter areas there is a predominance of Pinus patula together with the palm Euterpe macrospadix and the arboreal ferns Alsophila myosuroides and Hemitelia multiflora.

    Belizian pine forests 2008

  • Nowadays, your lawn's overrun with imports from elsewhere: rosa multiflora, Tree of Heaven, garlic mustard, and fifty species of bindweed.

    saving endangered species scusteister 2008

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