hybrid tea rose
noun
: any of numerous moderately hardy cultivated hybrid roses grown especially for their strongly recurrent bloom of large usually scentless flowers
called also hybrid tea
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Grandma’s Yellow is a hybrid tea rose that was selected from a search by Jerry Parsons, Greg Grant and a volunteer team to find a rose with yellow flowers that was in the same toughness league as Belinda’s Dream.
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Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020
In 1986, there were 228 domestic growers producing just one type of rose — the hybrid tea rose — for mass consumption.
—Damian Paletta, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020
In 1986, there were 228 domestic growers producing just one type of rose — the hybrid tea rose — for mass consumption.
—Damian Paletta, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
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First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
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