noun
shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean
• Syn: ↑family Cistaceae, ↑rockrose family
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Cistus, ↑genus Cistus, ↑genus Helianthemum, ↑Hudsonia, ↑genus Hudsonia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.