China rose Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses
    Bengal rose; Rosa chinensis.
  2. noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
    Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; shoeblack plant; Chinese hibiscus; shoe black; Rose of China.

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Definitions
  1. . (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies.

Webster 1913