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GROUND ROSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ground rose mean?
• GROUND ROSE (noun)
The noun GROUND ROSE has 1 sense:
1. low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers
Familiarity information: GROUND ROSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
ground rose; Rosa spithamaea
Hypernyms ("ground rose" is a kind of...):
rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)
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