Crossword clues for rockrose
rockrose
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rockrose \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed, Helianthemum Canadense.
Cretan rockrose, a related shrub ( Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
Wiktionary
n. Any species of the genus (taxlink Helianthemum genus noshow=1), low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European (taxlink Helianthum vulgare species noshow=1) and the American frostweed, (taxlink Helianthum canadense species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small roselike yellow or white or reddish flowers [syn: 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 [syn: rock rose]
Usage examples of "rockrose".
After three wobbly seconds he landed in the prickly leaves of a rockrose, but he promptly got up, pulled a few thorns out of his foot, and tried again.
As always, the fairness of this contest will be decided by Frankenmuth, Spalanade and Rockrose, our accountants.
Then, frowning, he looked down the hillside to the place where the path lay, hidden by rockroses, brambles, and thorns.
In pockets between stones Briar found tiny, ground-hugging flowers with spiky white petals, rockroses, and pinks.
Lucy, taking the idea from Kate, had picked more flowers, and now the hair of both of them was bedecked with the yellow rockroses, moon daisies and clover.
I opened the car door, and as Martha bounded out, I was almost blown away by the heady scent of rockroses and the fresh ocean breeze.
The patio was sheltered on its north and east sides by a spectacular rockery, densely planted with maiden pink and rockrose and snow-in-summer.
By game time the entire flat will be blanketed with sun-daisies, and golden rockroses will adorn the marge and the campgrounds back among the tall trees.
The bushes, and the long grasses, between the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage and the marjoram, and the yellow rockroses all vanished, and they found themselves at the top of a wide steep slope of fallen stones, the remains of a landslide.