单词 | rosebush |
释义 | rosebushn. 1. A bush which bears roses; a rose plant. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1563 |
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