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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 Africa
Familiarity information: CISTUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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