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Definition of Cherokee rose
1. Noun. Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherokee Rose
Literary usage of Cherokee rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1921)
"... R. nivea; R. Camellia; and cherokee rose. From China, Formosa, and Japan,
naturalized in southern states. High climber; slender green prickly branches. ..."
2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"... every trace is obliterated of the time and manner in which it may have been
introduced. Such instances are found in the cherokee rose ..."
3. Maybloom and Myrtle by Samuel Minturn Peck (1910)
"THE cherokee rose 'Mid glossy green leaflets, a joy to the day, In my garden you
seem like a dryad astray, WHITE-BROWED and gold-hearted, at morning a-sway, ..."
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