rock flower

American  

noun

1. any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of rock flower

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

As in Minecraft, another gigantic video game world created by an improbably small team, every rock, flower, tree, creature and scene is generated rather than, as in most video games, drawn or shaped by hand.

From The Guardian

The poetry and sweep of primitive America are breathtaking until chapter after chapter piles up in which each rock, flower, cloud and zephyr, each meal, word and gesture of the poet-hero, is decorated with its precisely weighed set of adjectives and adverbs, all arranged in sensitive perfection but tending soon to surfeit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every landscape painter should know the specific characters of every object he has to represent, rock, flower, or cloud; and in his highest ideal works, all their distinctions will be perfectly expressed, broadly or delicately, slightly or completely, according to the nature of the subject, and the degree of attention which is to be drawn to the particular object by the part it plays in the composition.

From Project Gutenberg