NOUN | plant | rockrose, rock rose | any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers |
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plant | rockrose, rock rose | small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions / regions of southern Europe and North Africa |
Sounds | raa'krow.z | |
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Rhymes | Ambrose ... Windows: 49 rhymes with owz... |
Meaning | Any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers. | |
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Synonym | rock rose | |
Broader | helianthemum, sunrose, sun rose | Any plant of the genus Helianthemum |
Spanish | jara |
Meaning | small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions / regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage. | |
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Synonym | rock rose | |
Member of | Cistus, genus Cistus | small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa |
Narrower | common gum cistus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum | shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative |
white-leaved rockrose, Cistus albidus | Compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers | |
Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
Spanish | jara |
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