any of numerous roses, such as the dogrose and sweetbrier, that grow wild and have flowers with only one whorl of petals
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wild′ rose′,
- Plant Biologyany native species of rose, usually having a single flower with the corolla consisting of one circle of five roundish, spreading petals.
- 1775–85
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