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rockrose

DEFINITIONS OF: rockrose

1

n any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers

Synonyms:
rock rose
Type of:
helianthemum, sun rose, sunrose
any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions

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

Synonyms:
rock rose
Types:
Cistus albidus, white-leaved rockrose
compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers
Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum, common gum cistus
shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
Type of:
bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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