multiflora rose

American  

noun

1. a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.

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multiflora rose British  

/ ˌmʌltɪˈflɔːrə /

noun

1. an Asian climbing shrubby rose, Rosa multiflora, having clusters of small fragrant flowers: the source of many cultivated roses

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Etymology

Origin of multiflora rose

1820–30; multiflora < New Latin, feminine of Medieval Latin multiflōrus multiflorous

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multiflora rose

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

Several already are widespread throughout the state, such as burning bush, glossy buckthorn, multiflora rose, and Japanese barberry.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2017

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

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