desert rose
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈzɜːt ɹəʊz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈzɝt ɹoʊz/
Noun
[edit]desert rose (plural desert roses)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see desert, rose.
- (botany) a flowering plant
- A flowering plant of the genus Adenium, native to Africa and the Middle East; a common ornamental.
- Rosa stellata, a species of rose native to North America.
- Sturt’s desert rose, of Australia (Gossypium sturtianum).
- (mineralogy) A rosette of gypsum or barite crystals formed under certain conditions.
- (poetic) An attractive women found in an arid environment
Translations
[edit]rosette of gypsum or barite crystals
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Further reading
[edit]desert rose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “desert rose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.