multiflora
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of multiflora
1820–30; < New Latin, a typical specific epithet of flowering plants; see multiflora rose
Example Sentences
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Happy memories included working alongside his sister to bushwhack out planting spaces from the dark thicket of invasive autumn olive, multiflora rose and Oriental bittersweet, connecting those spaces with narrow tunnels hacked from the underbrush.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
Instead, we see a plague of English ivy, winter creeper, vinca, honeysuckle vine, lesser celandine and multiflora rose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
They are targeting Johnson grass, giant foxtail, Canada thistle, nodding thistle, common teasel, multiflora rose, Amur honeysuckle, poison hemlock, marestail, Japanese knotweed and kudzu.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
Clipping through thorny multiflora, Mrs. Nelson led the way to a clearing where trees had fallen in a 2011 storm.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2014
The whole front of it was covered by a large scarlet bignonia and a native multiflora rose, which, entwisting and interlacing, left scarce a vestige of the rough logs to be seen.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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