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rockrose family — noun shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean • Syn: ↑Cistaceae, ↑family Cistaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
rockrose — noun Date: 1731 any of a genus (Cistus of the family Cistaceae, the rockrose family) of shrubs or woody herbs of the Mediterranean region with simple entire leaves, roselike flowers, and a capsular fruit … New Collegiate Dictionary
family Cistaceae — noun shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean • Syn: ↑Cistaceae, ↑rockrose family • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
rockrose — [räk′rōz΄] n. CISTUS adj. designating a family (Cistaceae, order Violales) of bushy dicotyledonous plants, including pinweed and cistus … English World dictionary
rockrose — rock•rose [[t]ˈrɒkˌroʊz[/t]] n. pln any of various plants of the family Cistaceae, esp. of the genus Cistus, having simple, usu. opposite leaves and flowers sometimes resembling a rose • Etymology: 1620–30 … From formal English to slang
rockrose — /ˈrɒkroʊz/ (say rokrohz) noun 1. any plant of the genus Cistus or some allied genus, as Helianthemum. 2. any plant of the family Cistaceae. {rock1 + rose1} …
dilleniid dicot family — noun family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Hyponyms: ↑Capparidaceae, ↑family Capparidaceae, ↑caper family, ↑Cruciferae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Gum rockrose — taxobox name = Gum Rockrose regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Malvales familia = Cistaceae genus = Cistus species = C. ladanifer binomial = Cistus ladanifer binomial… … Wikipedia
List of Canadian plants by family A — Main page: List of Canadian plants by familyFamilies: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I J K | L | M | N | O | P Q | R | S | T | U V W | X Y Z Acanthaceae * Justicia americana common water willow Aceraceae * Acer circinatum vine maple * Acer… … Wikipedia
Cistus — monspeliensis Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae … Wikipedia
