rosa chinensis

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   shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses

   SynonymsChina roseBengal rose

   Broaderrose

Questions about rosa chinensis

What does rosa chinensis mean?

rosa chinensis means "shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses".

What is another word for rosa chinensis?

Close synonyms include China rose, Bengal 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 chinensis a common word?

rosa chinensis 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.