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

Example Sentences

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 the tree was surrounded by a thicket of multiflora rose brambles, so he pretty much eyeballed it, admitting to “giving it the benefit of doubt.”

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2013

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)