musk rose
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noun
a rose, Rosa moschata, of the Mediterranean region, having white, musk-scented flowers.
Origin of musk rose
First recorded in 1570–80
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The “musk-rose” is never in fact the child of mid-May, as he has it.
The ChildrenAlice Meynell
Finally, she sat on a moss-bank, reached and took a musk-rose on her palm, and looked hopelessly at it.
The Purple CloudM.P. Shiel
Next to that is the musk-rose, then the strawberry leaves, dying with a most excellent cordial smell.
What is more tranquil than a musk-rose blowing In a green island, far from all men's knowing?
Poems 1817John Keats
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