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Wikipedia:

Rose | Rosa

Summary:

a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colours. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often ...  (44 of 7605 words, 29 images)

Wikipedia:

Rose (disambiguation)

Summary:

may refer to: Rose, Nova Scotia, a community in Cumberland County | Rose Theatre, Brampton, a theatre in the City of Brampton, Ontario | The Rose (theatre), an Elizabethan theatre in the London Borough of Southwark | Rose, Calabria, a comune in the ...  (40 of 467 words, 39 senses)

Random House:

rose | rosed [past tense] | rosing [present participle]

Summary:

any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus [Rosa] | any of various related or similar ...  (21 of 359 words, 24 senses, pronunciation)

Encarta:

rose | roses [plural] | everything's coming up roses

Summary:

a prickly bush with compound leaves that is cultivated in many varieties and hybrids for its flowers. Genus Rosa. | a flower of the rose. Roses are ...  (26 of 280 words, 14 senses, 1 etymology, pronunciation)

Merriam-Webster:

rise | rose [past tense] | risen [past participle] | rising [present participle] | spring | gul [sense 1, archaic]

Summary:

to assume an upright position especially from lying, kneeling, or sitting | to get up from sleep or from one's bed | to return from death | to take up ...  (27 of 236 words, 18 senses, 1 etymology, pronunciation)

Wiktionary:

rose | roses [plural] | rosed [past tense] | rosing [present participle] | be not a bed of roses | cabbage rose | ceiling rose | Cherokee rose | China rose | Christmas rose | come up roses | compass rose | damask rose | dog rose | English rose | guelder rose | moss rose | multiflora rose | musk rose | old rose | polyantha rose | rhodamine | rhodium | rhodochrosite | rhododendron | rhodolite | rhodora | rhondonite | Roisín Dubh | rosacea | rosaniline | rosarian | rosary | rosary pea | rose acacia | rose apple | rose beetle | rose bowl | rose bug | rose campion | rose chafer | rose cold | rose cut | rose fever | rose geranium | rose hip | rose mallow | rose moss | rose of Jericho | rose of Sharon | rose oil | rose periwinkle | rose quartz | rose slug | rose topaz | rose water | rose window | roseate | roseate spoonbill | rosebay rhododendron | rose-breasted grosbeak | rosebud | rosebush | rose-coloured glasses | rose-colored glasses | rosefinch | rosefish | rosegarden | rosehip | roseleaf | roseola | rose-pink | rose-red | roseroot | rose syrup | rose-tinted | rosette | rosewater | rosewood | Rosicruician | rosy | rugosa rose | run for the roses | smell like a rose | Sturt's desert rose | sub rosa | tea rose | the Wars of the Roses | under the rose | wild rose | wind rose

Summary:

a shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers | a flower of the rose plant | Something resembling a rose flower. | a purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers | a round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose. | ...  (44 of 152 words, 10 senses, 1 image, 3 etymologies, pronunciation)

Britannica:

rose

Summary:

any perennial shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, an almost universally distributed group of some 100 species. The great ...  (24 of 104 words)

Columbia:

rose | rambler rose

Summary:

common name for some members of the Rosaceae, a large family of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed over most of the earth, and for plants of the ...  (27 of 34 words)

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