cistus

English Thesaurus

1. small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dilleniid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	rock rose, rockrose,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cistaceae, family cistaceae, rockrose family,
definition	:	shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean (noun.plant)