rosebush

[ rohz-boosh ]

noun
  1. a shrub that bears roses.

Origin of rosebush

1
First recorded in 1580–90; rose1 + bush1

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How to use rosebush in a sentence

  • I began to vary his diet, too, and gave him what green slugs I could find on the rosebushes, as well as minced earthworms.

  • In New York state it may often be found feeding upon the plant lice, or aphids, which live on rosebushes.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • The yard was walled off from the road and there were seats within and rosebushes and plum trees and hop-vines.

    The Kentucky Warbler | James Lane Allen
  • When they came to the rosebushes he broke for her a few scarce-opened buds, and himself fastened them in the coils of her hair.

    Audrey | Mary Johnston
  • All the old heterogeneous rosebushes in the wood-yard and front "lawn" were pied with fragrant bloom.