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CHRISTMAS ROSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas rose mean?
• CHRISTMAS ROSE (noun)
The noun CHRISTMAS ROSE has 1 sense:
1. European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS ROSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black hellebore; Christmas rose; Helleborus niger; winter rose
Hypernyms ("Christmas rose" is a kind of...):
hellebore (any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus)
Context examples
It was a comfortable room, though the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses bloomed in the windows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home peace pervaded it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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