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ROCK ROSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; rockrose
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rock rose" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rock rose"):
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)
Holonyms ("rock rose" is a member of...):
Cistus; genus Cistus (small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
Synonyms:
rock rose; rockrose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("rock rose" is a kind of...):
helianthemum; sun rose; sunrose (any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions)
