kaiserin means the wife of a Kaiser. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From German Kaiserin. The rose was named after Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein by the German rose breeder Peter Lambert in 1891.
noun
- The wife of a Kaiser.“We should have expected the Kaiser to curse them and the weather, not to weep. Weeping? Kaisers and Kaiserins and Count Zeppelins should be made of sterner stuff.”
- Rosa ‘Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria’, a white hybrid tea rose cultivar.“W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out a bench of Kaiserins at Christmas that had been blooming all summer and substituting Brides and Bridesmaids for winter flowering and judging from present appearances it was a success.”