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Definition of Rock rose

1. Noun. Any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers.

2. Noun. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Rose

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Literary usage of Rock rose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"ROCK-ROSE FAMILY. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple leaves, ... Some of the species are known as Rock-rose or Sun-rose. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"ROCK-ROSE FAMILY. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple leaves, ... Some of the species are known as Rock-rose or Sun-rose. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"ROCK-ROSE FAMILY. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple leaves, ... Some of the species are known as Rock-rose or Sun-rose. ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The courte of the pollen-tubes In a Rock-rose (Helianthemum ... The adjacent figure 3142 shows for a Rock-rose ..."

5. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... or are produced in racemose, clustered, or paniculate inflorescences. ROCK-ROSE. SUN ROSE. ... FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM Rock-rose. ..."

6. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"(rock rose Family.) FROST WORT; FROST WEED OR ROSE, (Helianthemum . MX.) Fla. and NC and northward. ..."

7. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"rock rose. Character of the Genus.—Sepals and petals as in the character of the order. Ovary 1-celled ; style short or none. Most North American species ..."

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