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Definition of Ground rose
1. Noun. Low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Rose
Literary usage of Ground rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monography of the Genus Camellia Or: An Essay on Its Culture, Description by Lorenzo Berlèse (1838)
"ground rose striped or spotted with cherry-red, as in No. ... flower three inches
in diameter, full, ground rose, marked with cherry-red lines, No. ..."
2. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"Mr. Deacon, our neighbor, rose and stood by the window, and he declares that the
ground rose in waves. Coyote, Santa Clara County (GA Waring). ..."
3. Longfellow Birthday Book by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1910)
"From the ground Rose an odor sweet and fragrant Of the wild-flowers and the
vagrant Vines that wandered, Seeking the sunshine, round and round. ..."
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