rockrose

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rockrose has 2 senses

rockrose(n = noun.plant) rock rose - any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers; Array

is a kind of helianthemum, sun rose, sunrose

rockrose(n = noun.plant) rock rose - small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage; Array

is a member of cistus, genus cistus

has particulars: cistus albidus, white-leaved rockrose, cistus ladanifer, cistus ladanum, common gum cistus

is a kind of bush, shrub

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rockrose, n.

A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed, Helianthemum Canadense. [1913 Webster]

Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.

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