cistus

British  

/ ˈsɪstəs /

noun

1. any plant of the genus Cistus See rockrose

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Etymology

Origin of cistus

C16: New Latin, from Greek kistos

Example Sentences

Big pots hold clipped evergreens, and the driveway is lined with rosemary, cistus and euphorbia.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2016

The purple and the white cistus, which is so readily mistaken for a wild rose,157 were already out of blow, and showed but a rare blossom.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

As we brushed through them, the gummy leaves of a cistus stuck to the clothes: and with its small white flower and yellow heart stood for our English dog-rose.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The country around our quarters is a level plain of evergreen scrub—lentiscus, broom, heaths of varied kinds, and mile upon mile of sombre grey-green cistus, generally about shoulder-high, but deepening in places into impassable jungle.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

The writer's position was on the crest of a sand-ridge, with only the covert of a dead cistus bush: nothing, however, tested his powers of concealment except a few partridge and a pack of stone-plovers.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.