saltspray rose

English

Saltspray rose growing on a beach

Noun

saltspray rose (plural saltspray roses)

  1. A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa.
    • 1991, Scott Russell Sanders, Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home, Boston: Beacon Press, Part 2, “Jailhouse Blues,” p. 139,
      I followed the tracks as they meandered from lane to field of purple beach peas and saltspray roses []
    • 2010, Therese Bohman, “Drowned”, in Marlaine Delargy, transl., Other Press, New York, Part 1, p. 48:
      Every holiday when we were little we went to some cottage by the sea, to sandy Swedish beaches shelving gently into the water, saltspray roses in full bloom []

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