NOUN
- tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover
How To Use cliff rose In A Sentence
- One-half of the arrow was made of a slender hard twig of cliff rose; the other half was formed of some pithy suffruticose herb which I could not determine satisfactorily, as I saw only the cut sections and was not permitted to handle these. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468
- As if their minds were connected, the bear shook its head then dropped to all fours, tearing through the chokeberry and cliff rose at a speed belying its size. Mini-interview: TW Williams |
