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
But why focus on this particular invasive plant, when there are so many others: Japanese bittersweet, stiltgrass, mugwort, multiflora rose, Japanese hops, autumn olive, Callery pear, porcelain berry, to name a few?
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2014
Many of their comfortable cabins had been recently whitewashed, and were adorned with little gardens in front; over the one nearest the house a multiflora rose was creeping in full bloom.
From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)
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