Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wild rose, Rosa setigera, of the interior United States, the only American climbing rose.
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Examples
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January, the leaves of the prairie-rose were full and green, bending over him as if in mourning for the early dead.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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Every vestige of whatever was decent about the house and garden was soon swept away; for the customers of the shop, in a grand Sunday drinking-bout, amused themselves with tearing down even the prairie-rose and climbing-vine that once gave a sylvan charm to the rude dwelling.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856
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As she spoke, a sudden breeze of air shook the clusters of a prairie-rose, which was climbing into the tree under which she was sitting, and a shower of rose-leaves fell around her.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856
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