rosebush

/roʊz bʊʃ/

/rəʊz bʊʃ/

Other forms: rosebushes

Definitions of rosebush

1. noun

   any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
   synonyms: rose

   types:

   Rosa pendulina, mountain rose

   European alpine rose with crimson flowers

   Rosa spithamaea, ground rose

   low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers

   Rosa banksia, banksia rose

   Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers

   Rosa canina, dog rose

   prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe

   Bengal rose, China rose, Rosa chinensis

   shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses

   Rosa damascena, damask rose, summer damask rose

   large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids

   Rosa eglanteria, briar, brier, eglantine, sweetbriar, sweetbrier

   Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

   Cherokee rose, Rosa laevigata

   Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms

   Japanese rose, Rosa multiflora, baby rose, multiflora, multiflora rose

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

   Rosa moschata, musk rose

   rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers

   Rosa odorata, tea rose

   any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers

   type of:

   bush, shrub

   a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems