Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A standard rose; a rosebush.
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Examples
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On the table is a rose-tree in bloom, and other plants around it.
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On the table is a rose-tree in bloom, and other plants around it.
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The mysterious wind of will drove me to you, as the tempest brings the little rose-tree to the pollard window.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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The boughs of a monthly rose which grew there made such a noise sometimes, but as no wind was stirring he knew that it could not be the rose-tree.
The Woodlanders 2006
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The last flower attended. to was a rose-tree, which bloomed in a quiet green nook at the back of the house.
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When the three servants came to the forest, nothing was there but a rose-tree and one rose on it, but the children were nowhere.
Household Tales 2003
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He replied: ‘I intended to fill the skirts of my robe with roses, when I reached the rose-tree, as presents for my friends but the perfume of the flowers intoxicated me so much that I let, go the hold of my skirts.’
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And the tears ran down her cheeks and splashed on to the rose-tree roots.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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And he himself sank with so earth-shaking a subsidence that he broke a big rose-tree with his body and shook up into the sky a cloud of red earth — like the smoke of some heathen sacrifice.
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But his daughter saw him coming, and changed her horse into a plot of ground, herself into a rose-tree covered with roses, and the prince into a gardener.
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