prairie rose

American  

noun

1. a climbing rose, Rosa setigera, of the central U.S., having pinkish to white flowers: the state flower of North Dakota.

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Etymology

Origin of prairie rose

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

Example Sentences

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prairie rose

In one pudgy hand she carried a slightly smashed prairie rose, in the other a bent wild iris.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The Noon-Sun prayed a prairie rose   To blanch for him her blossom's hue, But to the Plain all love she owes;   Beneath that mother's grass she grew.

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland

She was a true child of the wilderness, a girl who grew, as the wild prairie rose grew, not on account of innumerable exigencies, accidents and hardships, but in spite of them.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

The prairie seemed spread out for leagues before them, covered with herds of buffaloes and deer, while immense flocks of turkeys and other birds of the prairie rose before them.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The valley was narrow to the west and to the east; the prairie rose towards the mountains, and some old oaks grew on it.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various