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UK
/ɹˈəʊzbeɪ/
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NOUN
- late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers
How To Use rosebay In A Sentence
- This is a white form of our old enemy the rosebay willowherb, but once you have seen it growing in a border backed by dark hedging you will forget all about its evil relatives.
- Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- It was however simply a plumed seed of rosebay willowherb whose offspring in a late summer breeze swirl through the air like snow in winter.
- I was out with this dangerous looking implement this afternoon, cutting down nettles, rosebay and docks nearly as tall as I am.
- In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak. Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
- There's the winter debris of the summer's plants, especially the strong gaunt stands of thistles, frizzy wands of rosebay willowherb, and upturned umbrellas of umbelliferae.
- Also avoid sago palm and other members of the cycad family as well as mushrooms, rhododendrons, azaleas, lilies of the valley, oleanders, rosebays, foxgloves and kalanchoe. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
- Wet leaves lay in patches between decaying rosebay, tall thistles bordering the worn fields. THE OPEN DOOR