| Cherokee rose |
a climbing, thornless rose that bears large white fragrant flowers. |
| damask rose |
a fragrant pink Asian rose that is an ancestor of hybrid roses and whose oil is often used as a source for attar. |
| dog rose |
a prickly European wild rose that bears pink flowers. |
| moss rose |
see "portulaca." |
| multiflora rose |
a variety of rose shrub bearing thick clusters of small flowers and used for hedges. |
| musk rose |
a rose of the Mediterranean region, bearing white, musk-scented flowers. |
| old rose |
a grayish or purplish red color. |
| rose acacia |
a shrub found in the southern United States that has brittle, prickling branches and bears clusters of large, rose-colored flowers. |
| rose chafer |
a long-legged gray beetle that feeds on and damages roses and other plants; rose bug; rose beetle. |
| rose fever |
a form of hay fever that occurs in spring or early summer as an allergic reaction to rose pollen. |
| rose geranium |
any of several geraniums that bear small pink or rose-colored flowers and are grown for their fragrant leaves, used in flavorings and perfumes. |
| rose hip |
the fruit of the rose plant, which contains several smaller fruitlets and is usu. red in color. |
| rose mallow |
any of several plants related to mallow, esp. a tall North American marsh species that has downy leaves and bears large, showy, white or pink flowers. |
| rose of Jericho |
a fernlike desert plant of Asia that curls up tightly in dry conditions and expands again in moist ones. |
| rose of Sharon |
a tall, hardy shrub or small tree that bears bright bell-shaped flowers of pink, purple, or white. [2 definitions] |
| rose oil |
an essential oil obtained from roses; attar of roses. |
| rose quartz |
a pink or rose-colored variety of quartz, used as a gemstone. |
| rose water |
a tincture of water with attar of roses, used in perfume, cosmetics, and cooking. |
| rose window |
a circular window, usu. with stained glass panes and a radiating, rose-shaped tracery in a symmetrical pattern around the center. |
| rose-breasted grosbeak |
a North American grosbeak, the male of which has a triangular, rosy patch on the breast. |