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musk rose

noun
  1. a rose, Rosa moschata, of the Mediterranean region, having white, musk-scented flowers.
  2. musk mallow(def 1).
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Origin of musk rose

First recorded in 1570–80
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Examples from the Web for musk rose

Historical Examples

  • The “musk-rose” is never in fact the child of mid-May, as he has it.

    The Children

    Alice Meynell

  • Finally, she sat on a moss-bank, reached and took a musk-rose on her palm, and looked hopelessly at it.

  • 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 1817

    John Keats

British Dictionary definitions for musk rose

musk rose

noun
  1. a prickly shrubby Mediterranean rose, Rosa moschata, cultivated for its white musk-scented flowers
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