multiflora

American  

[muhl-tuh-flawr-uh, -flohr-uh] / ˌmʌl təˈflɔr ə, -ˈfloʊr ə /

noun

1. any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by many single, relatively small flowers, as certain kinds of petunias or roses.

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Etymology

Origin of multiflora

1820–30; < New Latin, a typical specific epithet of flowering plants; see multiflora rose

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

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

Out came the Chinese bittersweet and multiflora roses.

From Architectural Digest • Jul. 8, 2014

The house was surrounded by a wide verandah, which, like the building itself, was roofed with shingles, and up the posts and along the edge of which there climbed a profusion of the multiflora rose.

From Frank Oldfield Lost and Found by Wilson, Theodore P.