noun
1. any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
• Syn: ↑rock rose
• Hypernyms: ↑helianthemum, ↑sunrose, ↑sun rose
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
• Syn: ↑rock rose
• Hyponyms: ↑white-leaved rockrose, ↑Cistus albidus, ↑common gum cistus, ↑Cistus ladanifer, ↑Cistus ladanum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cistus, ↑genus Cistus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.