ROSE

ROSE

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  flower

  [countable] a flower that often has a pleasant smell, and is usually red, pink, white, or yellow, or the bush that this flower grows on:
• a dozen red roses
• A large bouquet of roses arrived on her desk.
•  rose bushes
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  colour

  [uncountable] a pink colour
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  something is not a bed of roses

  also something is not all roses British English informal if a job or situation is not a bed of roses, it is not always pleasant and there are difficult things to deal with:
• It's no bed of roses teaching in a secondary school.
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  put the roses back in somebody's cheeks

  British Englishinformal to make someone look healthy again
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  be coming up roses

  informal to be happening or developing in the best possible way
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  come out of something/come up smelling of roses

  informalto do well or get an advantage from a situation, when you could have been blamed, criticized, or harmed by it:
• She managed to come out of the deal smelling of roses.
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  for water

  [countable] British English a circular piece of metal with holes in it that is attached to the end of a pipe or watering can so that liquid comes out in several thin streams

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.