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Rose family   /roʊz fˈæməli/   Listen
Rose family

noun
1.
A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens.  Synonyms: family Rosaceae, Rosaceae.






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"Rose family" Quotes from Famous Books



... milk-white grain, the broad acres undulating gracefully beneath the pressure of the passing breezes. The abundant wild flowers were vivid in color and fantastic in shape, nearly all unknown to us, save now and then an azalea, an iris, or some single-leaved representative of the rose family. ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... to the salon to fetch what he needed; he brought in a tiny and graceful Chinese tea-pot of the Rose family, which he filled with gun powder, and through the neck of which he carefully introduced a long piece of tinder, lighted it and, running, carried this infernal machine ...
— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant



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