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Rose of sharon

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Noun
  1. 1
    A flower of uncertain kind: perhaps Pancratium maritimum, which grows on the Sharon Plain of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
  2. 2
    Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually three-lobed leaves; widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe wordnet
  3. 3
    Hypericum calycinum, an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia.
  4. 4
    Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, and a national emblem of South Korea.

Etymology

Calque of Biblical Hebrew חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן (khavatsélet hasharón), from the King James Bible.

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