ˈrose-bush
[f. rose n. + bush n.1]
1. A bush of the rose kind. Also attrib.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay xix. (1592) 296 There is not here so faire and sweet a Rosebush, which hath not very sharpe pricks. 1611 Cotgr., Rosier, a Rose-tree, Rose-bush, Rose-brier. a 1691 Boyle (J.), This way of procuring autumnal roses will, in most rose bushes, fail. 1707 Curiosities in Husb. & Gard. 259 The Buds of Rose-bushes. c 1765 T. Flloyd Tartarian T. (1785) 65/2 A spring..takes it's source from the foot of a rose-bush. 1807 Southey Lett. (1850) III. 68 Here I am now planting garden-enclosures, rose-bushes,..and resolute to become a mountaineer. 1850 Thackeray Pendennis xxviii, Her hands were guaranteed from the thorns of her favourite rose-bushes by a pair of gauntlets. 1897 Outing XXX. 244/2 A deep valley, where great trees were reduced to a rose-bush size. |
2. Austr. A kind of timber-tree (see quot.).
| 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Pl. 532 Eupomatia laurina,..‘Rose-bush’, or ‘Balwarra’. A small tree. The wood is soft, close, coarse-grained, and of a yellowish-brown colour. |