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Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see.
—Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
The gorge unfurled through tunnels of forest and dog rose, opening onto russet glades of wildflowers throbbing with bees.
—Henry Wismayer, WSJ, 23 May 2018
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1597, in the meaning defined above
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“Dog rose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dog%20rose. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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