mountain rose

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   European alpine rose with crimson flowers

   SynonymsRosa pendulina

   Broaderrose

Questions about mountain rose

What does mountain rose mean?

mountain rose means "European alpine rose with crimson flowers".

What is another word for mountain rose?

Close synonyms include Rosa pendulina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mountain rose a common word?

mountain rose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.