Thesaurus: rockrose
A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.
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- n. A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.
- n. any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
- n. 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
- A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense. Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
- A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, lowshrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H.vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense. Cretan rockrose, arelated shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding thefragrant gum called ladanum.
- n. any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers n. 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