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 thatroses 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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We went around the back of the house, past a rosebush growing wildly up to the garden shed.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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I, too, am a rosebush, and sometimes I forget that.
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"This is a rosebush, your majesty," Rose's mother replies.
A Royal Romp For the Little People Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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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.
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