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Rock rose

noun

Any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers. Synonym: rockrose.

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. Synonym: rockrose.

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"Rock rose" Quotes from Famous Books

... of artificial matter formed, and a stretch of rock rose under its lift as it cleft the rock apart. A great cleared, level space resulted. Other artificial matter enclosed the rock, and the fragments cut free were treated under tremendous pressure. In a few moments a second enormous mass of cosmium ...

— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell

... in which nature had indulged in the formation of this miniature crevasse between the hillsides. At the base ran a dark turbid stream, which had hollowed out for itself a sort of cavernous opening, and the walls of rock rose almost precipitately on three sides, only leaving one track by which the ravine could be entered. The stream came bubbling out from the rock, passing through some underground passage; and within the gloomy cavern thus produced the savage ...

— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green

Words linked to "Rock rose" : shrub, sun rose, Cistus ladanifer, sunrose, helianthemum, Cistus, Cistus albidus, bush, common gum cistus, white-leaved rockrose, genus Cistus, Cistus ladanum