Lexic.us

Definition of Rose bay

1. Noun. An ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose Bay

Literary usage of Rose bay

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Hybrid rose bay-tree, supposed to have been produced by fertilizing the common white glaucous-leaved Azalea with the pol- ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Oleander, rose-bay, rose-tree. ... the rose-tree, rose-bay, ... rose-bay-tree ; ' Cot. The same as Ital. oleandro. ..."

3. Challenging Horizons: QANTAS 1939-1954 by John Gunn (1987)
"Heavy camouflage was no longer necessary as this photograph of Clifton at Rose Bay in late 1940 clearly shows. operate from San Francisco via Honolulu, ..."

4. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1889)
"... Gap — Wreck of the Dun- liar — Middle Harbour — Manly — Double Bay and rose bay. suburbs of Sydney are as varied as they are numerous and delightful. ..."

5. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1887)
"... The Gap — Wreck of the Dun- bar — Middle Harbour — Manly — Double Bay and Rose Bay. suburbs of Sydney are as varied as they are numerous and delightful. ..."

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