rosa : Idioms & Phrases

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genus rosa

  • noun large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses
    Rosa.
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hibiscus rosa-sinensis

  • noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
    shoeblack plant; Chinese hibiscus; China rose; shoe black; Rose of China.
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mal de la rosa

  • noun a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments
    mal rosso; Alpine scurvy; pellagra; mayidism; Saint Ignatius' itch; maidism.
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rosa banksia

  • noun Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers
    banksia rose.
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rosa canina

  • noun prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe
    dog rose.
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rosa chinensis

  • noun shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses
    Bengal rose; China rose.
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rosa damascena

  • noun large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids
    damask rose; summer damask rose.
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rosa eglanteria

  • noun Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
    sweetbrier; briar; sweetbriar; brier; eglantine.
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rosa laevigata

  • noun Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms
    Cherokee rose.
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rosa melba ponselle

  • noun United States soprano (1897-1981)
    Rosa Melba Ponselle; Ponselle.
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rosa moschata

  • noun rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers
    musk rose.
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rosa multiflora

  • noun vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock
    Japanese rose; multiflora rose; multiflora; baby rose.
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rosa odorata

  • noun any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers
    tea rose.
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rosa parks

  • noun United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
    Parks.
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rosa pendulina

  • noun European alpine rose with crimson flowers
    mountain rose.
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rosa ponselle

  • noun United States soprano (1897-1981)
    Rosa Melba Ponselle; Ponselle.
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rosa spithamaea

  • noun low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers
    ground rose.
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sub rosa

  • adverb in secret or covertly
    • held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism
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sub-rosa

  • adjective satellite designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
    under-the-table; behind-the-scenes.
    • a sub-rosa report
    • has their under-the-table backing
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