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ROSE OF CHINA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Rose of China mean?
• ROSE OF CHINA (noun)
The noun ROSE OF CHINA has 1 sense:
1. large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
Familiarity information: ROSE OF CHINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
China rose; Chinese hibiscus; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; Rose of China; shoe black; shoeblack plant
Hypernyms ("Rose of China" is a kind of...):
hibiscus (any plant of the genus Hibiscus)
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