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Definition of Rose-root
1. Noun. Eurasian mountain plant with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose-root
Literary usage of Rose-root
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"E. rosea, the rose-root, may be considered as a species of ... The rose-root is
the badge of the с!ал Gunn. [CAJ] RHODO. In Greek compounds = red. ..."
2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"rose-root. Barren Flowers. Calyx concave, deeply divided into four equal, ...
rose-root. Root thick and fleshy, smelling like roses: stems herbaceous, ..."
3. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1840)
"Rose-smelling rose-root. Mountain rose-root. Rose-wort. SPEC. CHAR. Stem simple.
Leaves oblong, serrated at the tip, smooth, glaucous. Root rather tuberous. ..."
4. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"rose-root. Leaves oblong, smooth, fleshy, serrated at the tip. English Botany, t.
508.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 246.—Hooker, Britsh Flora, ed. ..."
5. The Wild Garden: Or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic by William Robinson (1903)
"Then we come to the rose-root (Sedum Rhodiola) and the tribe of pretty ...
The rose-root is so called from the drying root-stock smelling like roses. ..."
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