rosebush [rohz-boo sh] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a shrub that bears roses.
Origin of rosebush First recorded in 1580–90; rose1 + bush1 Examples from the Web for rosebush Historical Examples of rosebush
You planted a rosebush on her first Roman birthday, you remember.
Hall Caine
It lay in a rosebush, dyeing the Abbot’s roses a deeper red.
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Rafael Sabatini
He flung him off, and sent him crashing into the rosebush and the lattice over which it rambled.
Raphael Sabatini
“She is out of sight,” he told the Rosebush and the Pansies.
Abbie Phillips Walker
It was as flourishing a rosebush as I should wish to see in any gentleman’s garden.
Jacob Abbott