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ˈrose-tree
Also rose tree.
[f. rose n. + tree n.]
A rose-bush.
c1340Nominale (Skeat) 667 If, roser et cenelere, Hw, rosetre and hawetre. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxxxvii. (Bodl. MS.), Þe rose tree springeþ somtyme bi sowinge of sede. 1611[see rose-bush]. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 195 It were profitable now also to top your Rose Trees. 1712Addison Spect. No. 418 ⁋8 His Rose-trees, Wood-bines, and Jessamines, may flower together. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 305 They are to be met with..upon the leaves of the ash, the poplar, and the rose trees. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xx, The very rose trees, at which Adam stopped to pluck one, looked as if they grew wild. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 157 One [hut] look'd all rosetree, and another wore A close-set robe of jasmine set with stars. |