noun
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, ↑Helianthemum canadense, ↑Crocanthemum canadense
• Hypernyms: ↑helianthemum, ↑sunrose, ↑sun rose
* * *
\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : a shrubby frostweed (Helianthemum canadense) of northeastern No. America with solitary terminal petalous flowers and few apetalous cleistogamous flowers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.