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Definition of Dog rose
1. Noun. Prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe.
Definition of Dog rose
1. Noun. The European wild rose, ''Rosa canina'', having fragrant white or pink flowers and stems with sharp spines. ¹
2. Noun. A ''Rosa canina'' flower. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Rose
Literary usage of Dog rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colin Clout's Calendar: The Record of a Summer April by Grant Allen (1883)
"DOG-ROSE AND BRAMBLES. IT always seems as though summer had positively come in
earnest when one pulls the first scented dog-rose of the season by the ..."
2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"The genus Rosa includes the wild Dog-Rose (Rosa canina L.) and several other
indigenous species, as well as the many introduced species and their hybrids ..."
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