rose chafer
rose bug
Macrodactylus subspinosus | common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines |
rose chafer rose beetle
Cetonia aurata | a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses |
rose bed
bed of roses | a flower bed in which roses are growing |
| rose garden | a garden for growing roses |
| rose water | perfume consisting of water scented with oil of roses |
rose window
rosette | circular window filled with tracery |
| wind rose | weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions |
rose
rosiness | a dusty pink color |
| old rose | a greyish-pink color |
| rose apple | fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections |
blush wine
pink wine
rose
rose wine | pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began |
Benet
William Rose Benet | United States writer, brother of Stephen Vincent Benet (-) |
Lee Gypsy Rose Lee
Rose Louise Hovick | United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the s (-) |
Christmas rose
winter rose
black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
lenten rose
black hellebore Helleborus orientalis | slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green |
impala lily
mock azalia
desert rose
kudu lily
Adenium obesum
Adenium multiflorum | South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall, popular as an ornamental in tropics |
periwinkle rose periwinkle
Madagascar periwinkle
old maid Cape periwinkle
red periwinkle
cayenne jasmine
Catharanthus roseus
Vinca rosea | commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers |
oleander
rose bay Nerium oleander | an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions |
crape jasmine
crepe jasmine
crepe gardenia
pinwheel flower
East Indian rosebay
Adam's apple
Nero's crown
coffee rose
Tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas, northern India to Thailand |
mullein pink
rose campion
gardener's delight
dusty miller Lychnis coronaria | an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers |
rose moss
sun plant
Portulaca grandiflora | widely cultivated in many varieties for its fleshy moss-like foliage and profusion of brightly colored flowers |
| rose of Jericho resurrection plant Anastatica hierochuntica | small grey Asiatic desert plant bearing minute white flowers that rolls up when dry and expands when moist |
| cotton rose cudweed filago | any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads |
bog rose
wild pink dragon's mouth
Arethusa bulbosa | a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla, Canada |
cliff rose
sea pink
Armeria maritima | tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone, occasionally grown as a ground cover |
musk mallow mus rose
Malva moschata | erect Old World perennial with faintly musk-scented foliage and white or pink flowers, adventive in United States |
rose mallow Alcea rosea
Althea rosea | plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers, the English cottage garden hollyhock |
rose mallow swamp mallow
common rose mallow
swamp rose mallow
Hibiscus moscheutos | showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large roseolored flowers |
cotton rose Confederate rose
Confederate rose mallow
Hibiscus mutabilis | Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night, widely cultivated, naturalized in southeastern United States |
China rose Chinese hibiscus
Rose of China
shoeblack plant
shoe black
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis | large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deeped flowers |
rose of Sharon
Hibiscus syriacus | Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually three-lobed leaves, widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe |
marsh pink
rose pink
bitter floom
American centaury
Sabbatia stellaris
Sabbatia Angularis | any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury |
rose apple
rose-apple tree
jambosa
Eugenia jambos | tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit |
rose gum
Eucalypt grandis | very tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales |
rose chestnut
ironwood ironwood tree Mesua ferrea | handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume, source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties |
| rockrose rock rose | small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa, grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage |
helianthemum
sunrose
sun rose | any plant of the genus Helianthemum, vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions |
| rockrose rock rose | any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers |
rush rose
Helianthemum scoparium | woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States |
Canada garlic
meadow leek
rose leek
Allium canadense | North American bulbous plant |
rose globe lily
Calochortus amoenus | globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems, western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley |
bristly locust
rose acacia
moss locust
Robinia hispida | large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers |
Rosaceae
family Rosaceae
rose family | a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales, have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens |
rose
rosebush | any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses |
hip
rose hip
rosehip | the fruit of a rose plant |
mountain rose
Rosa pendulina | European alpine rose with crimson flowers |
ground rose
Rosa spithamaea | low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers |
banksia rose
Rosa banksia | Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers |
dog rose
Rosa canina | prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers, native to Europe |
China rose Bengal rose
Rosa chinensis | shrubby Chinese rose, ancestor of many cultivated garden roses |