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Definition of Musk rose
1. Noun. Rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musk Rose
Literary usage of Musk rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"May's eldest child, The coming musk.rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt
of flies on summer eves. KEATS : Ode to a Nightingale. Flowers of all bue, ..."
2. The Rose Garden in Two Divisions by William Paul (1848)
"THE musk rose. The musk rose is supposed to have been introduced to ... The original
musk rose is a rambling shrub, abounding in Madeira and the North of ..."
3. The Book of Roses by Francis Parkman (1866)
"In 1817, M. Noisette, a French florist at Charleston, SC, raised a seedling from
the musk rose, impregnated with the pollen of the common China Rose. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"314, 315. is also a form of the musk rose. Several hybrids are known; ... The Musk
Rose is a handsome free-flowering climbing Rose, but is not hardy north. ..."
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