desert rose

Questions about desert rose

What does desert rose mean?

desert rose means "South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics".

What is another word for desert rose?

Close synonyms include impala lily, mock azalia, kudu lily, Adenium obesum, Adenium multiflorum. 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 desert rose a common word?

desert rose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.