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a flower that armed itself with daggers and called it romance
means A thorny flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, prized for its fragrant, many-petalled blooms — or the deep pinkish-red color named after them.
from From Latin 'rosa', which traveled into Old English and stayed put as 'rose'. The Latin word itself may be a cousin of Greek 'rhodon' (rose), and both are often traced to an older Eastern source — possibly Iranian — though the trail grows faint that far back. The color sense bloomed later, the flower simply lending its name to its own shade.
- thorn truth
- those aren't thorns, they're technically prickles
- old soul
- fossils date roses back 35 million years
- apple cousin
- closely related to apples and almonds
- edible too
- rose hips pack more vitamin C than oranges
- war emblem
- two English dynasties fought a 30-year Wars of the Roses
rose of sharon — biblical flower mentioned in song of solomon, identified as hibiscus syriacus native to east asia
compass rose — navigation symbol on maps and charts showing cardinal directions, used since 14th century
war of roses — english civil war 1455-1487 between houses of york (white rose) and lancaster (red rose)