rose vs ground rose

ground rose vs rose

rose and ground rose both are nouns.

rose is an adjective but ground rose is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rose	Yes	Yes	No	No
ground rose	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ground rose is a hyponym of rose; that is, ground rose is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rose:

rose: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
ground rose: low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers

Other hyponyms of rose include mountain rose, Rosa pendulina, Rosa spithamaea, banksia rose, Rosa banksia, dog rose, Rosa canina, Bengal rose, China rose, Rosa chinensis, damask rose, Rosa damascena, summer damask rose, briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, Cherokee rose, Rosa laevigata, baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora, multiflora rose, Rosa multiflora, musk rose, Rosa moschata, Rosa odorata, tea rose.

rose (noun)	ground rose (noun)
a dusty pink color	low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers
pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

rose (adjective)	ground rose (adjective)
of something having a dusty purplish pink color

Difference between rose and ground rose

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