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Helianthemum Canadense
(gcide) | Frostweed \Frost"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense),
sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic
tonic.
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Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile,
and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers
which bear seed. It is so called because, late in
autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at
the root; -- called also frostwort.
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Helianthemum Canadense
(gcide) | Rockrose \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.)
A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low
shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European
Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed,
Helianthemum Canadense.
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Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one
of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
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helianthemum canadense
(wn) | Helianthemum canadense
n 1: perennial of the eastern United States having early
solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers;
so-called because ice crystals form on it during first
frosts [syn: frostweed, frost-weed, frostwort,
Helianthemum canadense, Crocanthemum canadense] |
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Helianthemum Canadense
(gcide) | Frostweed \Frost"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense),
sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic
tonic.
[1913 Webster]
Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile,
and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers
which bear seed. It is so called because, late in
autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at
the root; -- called also frostwort.
[1913 Webster]Rockrose \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.)
A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low
shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European
Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed,
Helianthemum Canadense.
[1913 Webster]
Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one
of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
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