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CISTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cistus mean? 

CISTUS (noun)
  The noun CISTUS has 1 sense:

1. small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africaplay

  Familiarity information: CISTUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CISTUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cistus; genus Cistus

Hypernyms ("Cistus" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Cistus"):

rock rose; rockrose (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)

Holonyms ("Cistus" is a member of...):

Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)


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