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• Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (noun)
  1. large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
• Luxemburg, Rosa
  1. (1871-1919) a German SOCIALIST leader, born in Poland. In 1892 she helped to start the Polish Socialist Party, and later the Spartacus League, a political group which became the German Communist Party. She was killed by soldiers during a protest organized by the Spartacus League.
• Parks, Rosa
  1. (1913- ) a black woman in the US who became famous in 1955 because she refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. This action was illegal in the US state of ALABAMA and she was ARREST ed by the police. As a result, Martin Luther KING persuaded people not to use these buses, and in 1956 the US SUPREME COURT said that SEGREGATION (= keeping black people separate from white people) on buses was not legal.
• Rosa Melba Ponselle (noun)
  1. 1897-1981 united States soprano
• Rosa Parks (noun)
  1. 1913-2005 Alabama united States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement
• Rosa Ponselle (noun)
  1. 1897-1981 united States soprano
• Rosa banksia (noun)
  1. chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers
• Rosa canina (noun)
  1. prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe
• Rosa chinensis (noun)
  1. shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses
• Rosa damascena (noun)
  1. large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids
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