Meaning of ROCKROSE
| Pronunciation: | | 'râk`rowz
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | rock rose |
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| | See Also: | | bush, Cistus, Cistus albidus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum, common gum cistus, genus Cistus, helianthemum, shrub, sun rose, sunrose, white-leaved rockrose | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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