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rockroses

rockroses is the plural of rockrose.

Meaning of rockrose

Noun

rockrose (plural rockroses)

  1. Any of various plants in the family Cistaceae.
    • Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses [translating cistes], juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel.1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77
  2. Texas swampmallow (Pavonia lasiopetala, Malvaceae).
  3. flameflowers (Phemeranthus spp., Montiaceae).
  4. moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora, Portulacaceae).

Phrases with rockroses

Questions about rockroses

What is rockroses the plural of?
Rockroses is the plural of rockrose.

Words near rockroses in the dictionary

  1. rockpooling
  2. rockpools
  3. Rockport
  4. rockproof
  5. rockrose
  6. rockroses
  7. rockrunner
  8. rockrunners
  9. rocks
  10. rocks along
  11. rocks and rolls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockroses (page history and authors); rockrose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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