cotton rose

Questions about cotton rose

What does cotton rose mean?

cotton rose means "Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cotton rose?

Close synonyms include Confederate rose, Confederate rose mallow, Hibiscus mutabilis, cudweed, filago. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton rose a common word?

cotton rose is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.