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Definition of Dog rose

1. Noun. Prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Rose

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Literary usage of Dog rose

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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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