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
Polyadelphia: stamens united into three or more bundles; as in hypericum and cistus.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
The same plants grow from both alike—spurge, cistus, rue, and henbane, constant to the desolation of abandoned dwellings.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
The flowers of the field were chiefly cistus, red or white, and hollyhocks four feet high.
From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James
For warm, dry, sunny nooks rock-roses are the very thing; where other plants would be burnt up, the cistus flourishes, for it requires no particular depth of soil.
From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Biddle, Violet Purton
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