rosa spithamaea

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsground rose

   Broaderrose

Questions about rosa spithamaea

What does rosa spithamaea mean?

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

What is another word for rosa spithamaea?

Close synonyms include ground 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 spithamaea a common word?

rosa spithamaea 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.