ROCK ROSE
Dictionary entry overview: What does rock rose mean?
• ROCK ROSE (noun)
The noun ROCK ROSE has 2 senses:
1. any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small roselike yellow or white or reddish flowers
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
Familiarity information: ROCK ROSE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ROCK ROSE (noun)
Meaning:
Any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small roselike yellow or white or reddish flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
rock rose; rockrose
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)
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 foliage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
rock rose; rockrose
Hypernyms ("rock rose" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)
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)
