WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
rose′ fam′ily,
- Plant Biologythe plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
'rose family' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
cup
- agrimony
- American ipecac
- Apache plume
- apple
- avens
- barren strawberry
- beach plum
- bowman's root
- bramble
- bridal wreath
- burnet
- cherry
- chokeberry
- cinquefoil
- cloudberry
- cotoneaster
- damson
- dropwort
- dryas
- dwarf Japanese quince
- firethorn
- flowering quince
- goatsbeard
- ground cherry
- hardhack
- hawthorn
- herb bennet
- Indian hawthorn
- Indian strawberry
- jetbead
- kerria
- laurel cherry
- meadowsweet
- medlar
- mountain ash
- mountain avens
- mountain mahogany
- ninebark
- oiticica
- Oregon crab apple
- peach
- pear
- photinia
- plum
- prairie crab apple
- prairie smoke
- Provence rose
- queen of the prairie
- quince