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sun rose

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Noun1.sun rosesun rose - any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions
helianthemum, sunrose
genus Helianthemum - widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia
Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense - perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts
rock rose, rockrose - any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
Helianthemum scoparium, rush rose - woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems


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In the morning the sun rose brilliant and quickly wore away the thin layer of ice that covered the water, and all the warm air was quivering with the steam that rose up from the quickened earth.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.
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The sun rose in the undoubted east and set in the undoubted west, corrected and proved, of course, by declination, deviation, and variation; and the nightly march of the stars and constellations proceeded across the sky.
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