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rosebay

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rosebay or rose-bay is a common name for several plants Rosebay may refer to: Chamerion angustifolium , a herbaceous plant in the Onagraceae family, sometimes referred to by the common name rosebay in Britain Nerium oleander , a shrub in the Apocynaceae ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers [syn: Rhododendron maxima ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 oleander 2 rosebay willowherb

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oleander \O`le*an"der\, n. [F. ol['e]andre (cf. It. oleandro, LL. lorandrum), prob. corrupted, under the influence of laurus laurel, fr. L. rhododendron, Gr. ?; ? rose + ? tree.] (Bot.) A beautiful evergreen shrub ( Nerium oleander ) of the Dogbane ...

Usage examples of rosebay.

The fields of maize gave way to great open spaces of tangled railway lines, factories, sidings, wayside platforms, some of them bombed and abandoned, and busily growing rosebay willow-herb like any forsaken station at home.

Dripping coolly onto her sandaled feet, the untidy bunch of rosebay willow herb and irises brought her to a better state of mind.

They had tumbled into their own symmetry, and it was certainly true that too even a distribution between the irises and the rosebay willow herb ruined the effect.

Hearty yellow-flowered gorse poked through those sweeping fans as though caring little for the prerogatives of royalty, and rosebay crept up the border of the planting in low growing mats.

Four foxes lay senseless on the ground, half in and half out of the clump of rosebay willowherb.