Etymology

grandiflora

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Today it means: A rose of the Grandiflora class of roses created in the middle of the 20th century as backcrosses of hybrid teas and floribundas that fit neither category. Full definition →

New Latin grandiflōra
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  1. New Latin · derived fromgrandiflōra
  2. English todaygrandiflora

From translingual Grandiflora, from New Latin grandiflōra, the feminine form, following the feminine gender of rosa (“rose”), of grandiflōrus (“having large flowers”), from grandis (“large”) + flōs (“flower”, stem flōr-) + -us (suffix forming adjectives; feminine -a).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.