musk rose
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- noun
- UK
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rosa almizclera
- Jefferson and Lady Skipwith had grown damasks and gallicas, musk roses, and centifolias.
- an old musk rose
Examples
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Gardeners often seek the musk rose for its beautiful flowers and pleasant fragrance.
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The musk rose, known for its fragrant blooms, thrives in Mediterranean gardens.
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The Persian musk rose, cultivated for its perfume, had arrived in England in 1513.
Fiction book (1992) -
And mid-May's eldest child, the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves
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Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, while I thy amiable cheeks do coy, and stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
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In the summer, the musk rose fills the air with its sweet, musky scent.
Synonyms
A rose with climbing branches and musky white flowers
A rose with small white or pink flowers and a faint sweet smell
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a rose with a musky scent' is directly and compositionally derived from 'musk' (a strong scent) modifying 'rose' (the flower). This straightforward noun–noun compound follows common descriptive patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Musk rose comes from the flower's strong, sweet smell. Musk is a word for a strong, animal-like scent, and the climbing rose gives that smell, so the name means a rose that smells 'musky'.