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

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

His face brightened a moment, as he sat wearily down at his writing-table and saw the prairie rose in the slender vase.

From John Ward, Preacher by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

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

On a couple of fan shaped lattices, in which I take a little pride as my own handiwork, a honey-suckle on one side of the church-door and a prairie rose on the other are planted.

From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Abbott, Lyman

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