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单词 rosebush
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rosebushn.

Brit. /ˈrəʊzbʊʃ/, U.S. /ˈroʊzˌbʊʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rose n.1, bush n.1
Etymology: < rose n.1 + bush n.1
1. A bush which bears roses; a rose plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > rose-bush
roseOE
rosierc1300
rose treec1350
rosary1523
rosebush1563
rose-briar1598
rose vine1827
1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. 16 By chance she fell into a Rose bushe, and pricked with it her foote.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xix. 339 There is not here so fayre and sweet a Rosebush, which hath not very sharpe prickes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rosier, a Rose-tree, Rose-bush, Rose-brier.
a1691 R. Boyle Usefulness of Philos. in Philos. Wks. (1725) I. 223 This way of procuring autumnal roses will, in most rose-bushes commonly fail.
1716 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Thousand & One Quarters of Hours 249 A Spring..takes its Source from the Foot of a Rose-Bush.
1761 R. Henry et al. tr. A. Y. Goguet Origin Laws, Arts, & Sci. I. ii. i. 117 From thence the inhabitants learned to prune and cut off the superfluous branches from their rose-bushes.
1807 R. Southey Lett. (1850) III. 68 Here I am now planting garden-enclosures, rose-bushes,..and resolute to become a mountaineer.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxviii. 273 Her hands were guaranteed from the thorns of her favourite rose-bushes by a pair of gauntlets.
1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xxii. 225 An overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer-house of trellis-work.
2005 L. Rice Summer's Child i. 14 She just stood in her garden, clipping the dead heads from the rosebushes.
2. Australian. A large shrub or small tree, Eupomatia laurina (family Eupomatiaceae), with pale yellow rose-like flowers and edible fruit. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > other timber trees
jasmine-wood1712
fiddlewood1714
loblolly tree1750
rosewood1755
loblolly-wood1756
horn-beech1771
hop hornbeam1785
olive wood1866
myrtle1880
pounce tree1884
rosebush1889
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 532 Eupomatia laurina,..‘Rose-bush’, or ‘Balwarra’. A small tree. The wood is soft, close, coarse-grained, and of a yellowish-brown colour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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