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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of rose, Rosa centifolia, of many varieties, with a large, round, compact flower, supposed to have been cultivated from ancient times, and especially suited from its fragrance for the manufacture of rose-water and attar.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the resemblance of its flower to a head of cabbage .]
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