English Explanatory Dictionary

grandiflora

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rose of the Grandiflora class of roses created in the middle of the 20th century as backcrosses of hybrid teas and floribundas that fit neither category.

Word forms

grandiflora grandifloras

Etymology

From translingual Grandiflora, from New Latin grandiflōra, the feminine form, following the feminine gender of rosa (“rose”), of grandiflōrus (“having large flowers”), from grandis (“large”) + flōs (“flower”, stem flōr-) + -us (suffix forming adjectives; feminine -a).

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