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DESERT ROSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does desert rose mean?
• DESERT ROSE (noun)
The noun DESERT ROSE has 1 sense:
1. South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
Familiarity information: DESERT ROSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Adenium multiflorum; Adenium obesum; desert rose; impala lily; kudu lily; mock azalia
Hypernyms ("desert rose" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("desert rose" is a member of...):
Adenium; genus Adenium (one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia)
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