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Rock rose   /rɑk roʊz/   Listen
Rock rose

noun
1.
Any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers.  Synonym: rockrose.
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.  Synonym: rockrose.






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"Rock rose" Quotes from Famous Books



... inserted the machine will go. Audrey the Little would not speak, but when a penny was put in her hand she began to move, and made off for home with the treasure. The road turned and turned, but whichever way the Barle was always under us, and the red rock rose high at the side. This rock fractures aslant if worked, vast flakes come out, and the cleavage is so natural that until closely approached a quarry appears a cliff. Stone got out in squares, or cut down straight, leaves an artificial wall; these rocks ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies

... time to look about them, the ship's company perceived that they were on an isolated rock, separated from the mainland by a few fathoms. The rock rose some feet above the sea, but to their horror they perceived that it would be covered at high-water. It seemed as if they were rescued from one fearful catastrophe, only to perish by a more cruel and protracted ...
— Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 • William O. S. Gilly

... exquisite birds—probably jays—flitting about as though nothing unusual was going on. The variety of birds is not great, but all are new to me and have interested me greatly, so also have the flowers, which are very fine. I was specially taken with a big light purple rock rose, nearly three inches across, and ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson

... under the woods, between the grassy knolls of the mountain, and, as they reached the shady summit, which he had pointed out, the whole party burst into an exclamation. Behind the spot where they stood, the rock rose perpendicularly in a massy wall to a considerable height, and then branched out into overhanging crags. Their grey tints were well contrasted by the bright hues of the plants and wild flowers, that grew ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe



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



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