rose of Jericho
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rose of Jericho
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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Entire shelves are lined with bottles of raw ingredients used in Origins products, including ginger, turmeric, mushrooms and rose of Jericho, but also aren’t for sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2015
That the rose of Jericho opened the night our Saviour was born, and that placed in any house it will open when a child is born.
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
They "sang the same strambotti to the Virgin and the lady of their love, to the rose of Jericho and the red rose of the balcony."
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
The rose of Jericho grows in the sandy deserts of Arabia and on the Syrian housetops.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
O my sweet rose of Jericho, I know not Hundreds of years ago.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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