cabbage rose

cabbage rose

n. A shrubby hybrid rose (Rosa centifolia) native to Eurasia, having fragrant pink double-petaled flowers and a prickly stem and widely cultivated as a source of attar. Also called moss rose.
[From the resemblance of its flower to a head of cabbage .]

cabbage rose

n (Plants) a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head

cab′bage rose`


n. a rose, Rosa centifolia, having large and fragrant pink flowers, cultivated in many varieties. [1755–65]