rosa canina

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   prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe

   Synonymsdog rose

   Broaderrose

Questions about rosa canina

What does rosa canina mean?

rosa canina means "prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe".

What is another word for rosa canina?

Close synonyms include dog rose. 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 rosa canina a common word?

rosa canina 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.