Thorny flower

The answer

ROSE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROSE answer page.

Used 25 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ROSE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ROSE, most used first.

• Got up - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
• Stood up - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Valentine flower - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Valentine's Day flower - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• American Beauty, e.g. - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Ascended - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Wine choice - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Kennedy matriarch - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• Romantic flower - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• American Beauty - used 25 times, most recently in 2006
• Went up - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Jack's love in "Titanic" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Stood - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Pink wine - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• New York's state flower - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Flower stalk - STEM, used 153 times
• Easter flower - LILY, used 94 times
• Flower part - STEM, used 82 times
• Spring flower - IRIS, used 82 times
• Flower holder - VASE, used 73 times
• "Bearded" flower - IRIS, used 58 times

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