ground rose

1. 1.

   low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers

   SynonymsRosa spithamaea

   Broaderrose

Questions about ground rose

What does ground rose mean?

ground rose means "low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers".

What is another word for ground rose?

Close synonyms include Rosa spithamaea. 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 ground rose a common word?

ground rose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.