About The Word Rockrose
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Rockrose
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What's The Definition Of Rockrose?
[n] 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
[n] any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small roselike yellow or white or reddish flowers Synonyms | Synonyms for Rockrose: rock rose Related Terms | Find terms related to Rockrose: See Also | bush | Cistus | Cistus albidus | Cistus ladanifer | Cistus ladanum | common gum cistus | genus Cistus | helianthemum | shrub | sun rose | sunrose | white-leaved rockrose Rockrose In Webster's Dictionary \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.)
A name given to any species of the genus {Helianthemum}, low
shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European
{H. vulgare} and the American frostweed, {H. Canadense}.
{Cretan rockrose}, a related shrub ({Cistus Creticus}), one
of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
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