china rose

Questions about china rose

What does china rose mean?

china rose means "shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for china rose?

Close synonyms include Bengal rose, Rosa chinensis, Chinese hibiscus, Rose of China, shoeblack plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is china rose a common word?

china rose is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.