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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 foliageplay

    Synonyms:

    rock rose; rockrose

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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 flowersplay

    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)

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