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Cherokee rose

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Cherokee rose
n.
A prickly climbing evergreen rose (Rosa laevigata) native to China and naturalized in the southeast United States, having showy white fragrant flowers.

Cherokee rose
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
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Noun1.Cherokee rose - Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossomsCherokee rose - Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms
rose, rosebush - any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses


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