Definition of "dog-rose" []

• A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers. (noun)

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• "Most of my hedges are jungles of the various trees, draped with blackberry, dog-rose, bryony, honeysuckle and wild hop, all scrambling about the branches."
• "Mrs. Bones: Me will hide inside the dog-rose in front o' me door and throw candies at likkle children heads!"
• "The old doctrine of original sin, we now call reversion to type; the most lovely garden rose, if allowed to go without discipline and tendance, will in a few generations become again the common scentless dog-rose of our hedges."