dog-rose
Also 6–8 dogs-rose.
[A transl. of med.L. rosa canina, repr. L. cynorrodon (Pliny), Gr. κυνόροδον, f. κυνο- dog- + ῥόδον rose: see quots. 1597, 1830. The name is thus not of popular Engl. origin.]
A common species of wild rose (Rosa canina), with pale red flowers, frequent in hedges.
white dog-rose, a book-name for R. arvensis.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal 1088 Plinie..saith, that it is Rosa Canina—Dogs Rose. 1675 Phil. Trans. No. 114 (Bartholoni's Acta Med. & Phil.) A sort of Dogs-rose or Briar-bush. 1713 Derham Phys. Theol. (J.), Of the rough or hairy excrescence, those on the briar, or dogrose, are a good instance. 1778 Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) I. 261 R. arvensis, White-flowered Dogs-rose. 1830 Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 7) III. 618 note, By the Greeks Wild Roses were called κυνόροδον, because the root was thought to cure the bite of a mad dog; and hence the Latin canina, our Dog Rose. 1861 Neale Notes Dalmatia, etc. 93 Dog-roses that skirt the country road. |