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Rockrose

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various plants in the family Cistaceae.

    "Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses [translating cistes], juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    Texas swampmallow (Pavonia lasiopetala, Malvaceae).
  4. 4
    any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers wordnet
  5. 5
    flameflowers (Phemeranthus spp., Montiaceae).
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  1. 6
    moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora, Portulacaceae).

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From rock + rose.

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