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 river, the forest and the prairie rose up into the light, everything standing out, sharp and clear.

From The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

There were two crabbed little windows in front, for it could boast of but one story, and a narrow green door, over which a prairie rose bush clustered, as if to hide its infirmity.

From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

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