Definition of Dog rose

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

Exact synonyms: Rosa Canina
Generic synonyms: Rose, Rosebush

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

dog house
dog houses
dog in the hunt
dog in the manger
dog it
dog laurel
dog meat
dog mercury
dog musher
dog my cats
dog nose
dog paddle
dog person
dog pound
dog racing
dog rose (current term)
dog roses
dog scooter
dog scooters
dog show
dog sled
dog sleep
dog sleigh
dog slow
dog soldier
dog stinkhorn
dog tag
dog tags
dog tired

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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