multiflora

American  

[muhl-tuh-flawr-uh, -flohr-uh] / ˌmʌl təˈflɔr ə, -ˈfloʊr ə /

noun

1. any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by many single, relatively small flowers, as certain kinds of petunias or roses.

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Etymology

Origin of multiflora

1820–30; < New Latin, a typical specific epithet of flowering plants; see multiflora rose

Example Sentences

Happy memories included working alongside his sister to bushwhack out planting spaces from the dark thicket of invasive autumn olive, multiflora rose and Oriental bittersweet, connecting those spaces with narrow tunnels hacked from the underbrush.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Instead, we see a plague of English ivy, winter creeper, vinca, honeysuckle vine, lesser celandine and multiflora rose.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

Rose rosette disease, a naturally occurring virus, is spread by a tiny, windblown mite that has used the invasive multiflora rose as a host to expand into an increasing territory.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2021

Several already are widespread throughout the state, such as burning bush, glossy buckthorn, multiflora rose, and Japanese barberry.

From Washington Times • Mar. 20, 2017

Scilla sibirica multiflora 7   Lilium pyrenaicum 71   Galanthus nivalus 8   Allium Erdelii 72   Chionodoxa Lucili� 9   Ixiolirion Pallasi 73   Hyacinthus azureus 10 19.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by Weathers, John