(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Rose is the past tense of rise .
2.
A ~ is a flower, often with a pleasant smell, which grows on a bush with stems that have sharp points called thorns on them.
...a bunch of yellow ~s.
N-COUNT
3.
A ~ is bush that ~s grow on.
Prune rambling ~s when the flowers have faded.
N-COUNT
4.
Something that is ~ is reddish-pink in colour. (LITERARY)
...the ~ and violet hues of a twilight sky.
COLOUR
5.
If you say that a situation is not a bed of ~s, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
We all knew that life was unlikely to be a bed of ~s back in England.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, usu with brd-neg