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Definition of Rockroses
1. rockrose [n] - See also: rockrose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockroses
Literary usage of Rockroses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"These are also called rockroses. They are aromatic shrubs having all parts covered
with short or long usually glandular hairs. ..."
2. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"These are also called rockroses. They are aromatic shrubs having all parts covered
with short or long usually glandular hairs. The Fio. 32. ..."
3. Cactaceœ of Northeastern and Central Mexico Together with a Synopsis of the by William Edwin Safford (1909)
"... sometimes called " mountain jasmine," with yellow flowers like
rockroses (Helianthemum). Characteristic shrubs were a barberry ..."
4. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster (1908)
"The rockroses are very valuable shrubs, in that they will succeed on poor, gravelly
banks where few other plants could eke out an existence. ..."
5. West Coast of Africa, from Cape Spartel to Cape Agulhas: Including the by United States Hydrographic Office, United States, Hydrographic Office (1893)
"The summit of Green mountain, covered with rockroses and several species of fern
and mosses indigenous to the soil, rises a graceful oasis amid waste and ..."
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