cistus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cistus
C16: New Latin, from Greek kistos
Example Sentences
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Big pots hold clipped evergreens, and the driveway is lined with rosemary, cistus and euphorbia.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
There was also a curious black clematis and several species of broom and rock cistus.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
The smell of cistus was intense, hot, full of spices as the narrow streets of an oriental town at night.
From Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos
Yes, I know that, for I found a superb six-petaled poppy, spotted like a cistus, the other day in a friend's garden.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
Tall flowering heath, a persistently blooming plant with dark blue buttons, and delicate yellow rock roses were, as the months slipped past, succeeded by a fine display of cistus.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
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