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Definition of Desert rose
1. Noun. South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics.
Group relationships: Adenium, Genus Adenium
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desert Rose
Literary usage of Desert rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astoria; or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains by Washington Irving (1836)
"... AND PREDATORY HORDES SPECULATIONS ON WHAT MAY BE THE FUTURE POPULATION
APPREHENDED DANDERS— A PLOT TO desert rose THE INTERPRETER HIS SINISTER CHARACTER ..."
2. The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"MOOKE—Rose of the Desert. Rose of the Garden! such is woman's lot, Worshipp'd when
... —Rose of t/ie Desert. Rose! thou art the sweetest flower. ..."
3. The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"... of the Desert. Rose of the Garden! such is woman's lot,— Worshipp'd when
blooming—when she fades, forgot. ?i. ..."
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