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rock rose

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Noun1.rock rose - any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowersrock rose - any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
rockrose
helianthemum, sun rose, sunrose - any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions
2.rock rose - 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
rockrose
Cistus, genus Cistus - small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa
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
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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Certain tall white cones of rock rose out of the purple sea; they flushed in the afternoon light and their vague rosiness gave them a human expression in face of the cold expanse toward which the prow was turned; they seemed to say farewell, to be the last note of a peopled world.
Pandora by James, Henry View in context
 
 
 
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