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noun
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Origin of rose hip

First recorded in 1855–60
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How to use rose hip in a sentence

  • I have the wild rosehip, and the flat shield of the moonwort, and a pea-pod, and more whose names I know not.

    The Dove in the Eagle's Nest|Charlotte M. Yonge

British Dictionary definitions for rose hip

rosehip
/ (ˈrəʊzˌhɪp) /

noun
the berry-like fruit of a rose plantSee hip 2
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