WAR OF THE ROSES as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) War of the Roses is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower