multiflora

[ muhl-tuh-flawr-uh, -flohr-uh ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of multiflora¹

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

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

From Washington Post

They are targeting Johnson grass, giant foxtail, Canada thistle, nodding thistle, common teasel, multiflora rose, Amur honeysuckle, poison hemlock, marestail, Japanese knotweed and kudzu.

From Washington Times

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

The disease was first identified on wild multiflora roses in California, the Rocky Mountains and Manitoba, Canada.

From Fox News