rose

la rose (FR N-F) common flower of the rose bush, usually possessing a distinctive sweet scent, its petals arranged in concentric folds out from the center. In their natural state, roses are a pale red. Perhaps no flower has been more intensively cultivated by man, resulting in all sorts of hybrids, given fanciful names by their creators. In ancient Damascus and Persia, rosebuds were buried in jars, dug up on special occasions for use in cooking. Roses were also cultivated in ancient China. In…