Definition of Mountain rose

1. Noun. European alpine rose with crimson flowers.

Exact synonyms: Rosa Pendulina
Generic synonyms: Rose, Rosebush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Rose

mountain parsley fern
mountain partridge
mountain peak
mountain phlox
mountain pine
mountain pride
mountain quail
mountain range
mountain ranges
mountain reindeer
mountain rice
mountain rimu
mountain ringlet
mountain ringlets
mountain rose (current term)
mountain sandwort
mountain sheep
mountain sickness
mountain skink
mountain spinach
mountain spleenwort
mountain starwort
mountain sumac
mountain swamp gum
mountain tea
mountain tent
mountain tick fever
mountain top
mountain trail

Literary usage of Mountain rose

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Varieties such as Reeves, Early Crawford, and mountain rose suffer more from bud- killing than Greensboro, Carman, or Crosby. Vigorous trees that ripen ..."

2. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1898)
"... Oldmixon Cling, mountain rose, Family Favorite. President Murray:—Crosby was bearing it's first crop, which would make it later than on older trees. ..."

3. The Carolina Mountains by Margaret Warner Morley (1913)
"The air is clean and cool and fragrant; in the distant spaces lie fair valleys and noble mountains, while close about you the mountain rose-bay enchantingly ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Varieties such as Reeves, Early Crawford, and mountain rose suffer more from bud- killing than Greensboro, Carman, or Crosby. Vigorous trees that ripen ..."

5. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1898)
"... Oldmixon Cling, mountain rose, Family Favorite. President Murray:—Crosby was bearing it's first crop, which would make it later than on older trees. ..."

6. The Carolina Mountains by Margaret Warner Morley (1913)
"The air is clean and cool and fragrant; in the distant spaces lie fair valleys and noble mountains, while close about you the mountain rose-bay enchantingly ..."

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