cabbage rose
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Tweet n. A shrubby hybrid rose (Rosa centifolia) native to Eurasia, having fragrant pink double-petaled flowers and a prickly stem and widely cultivated as a source of attar. Also called moss rose. [From the resemblance of its flower to a head of cabbage .] |
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