noun
shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean
• Syn: ↑Cistaceae, ↑family Cistaceae
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Cistus, ↑genus Cistus, ↑genus Helianthemum, ↑Hudsonia, ↑genus Hudsonia
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the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.