rockrose

Other forms of rockrose

plural

rockroses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rockrose

What does rockrose mean?

rockrose means "any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rockrose?

rockrose has 2 syllables: roc-krose. The stress falls on "roc". In IPA it is /ˈɹɑˌkɹoʊz/.

What is another word for rockrose?

Close synonyms include rock rose, rock rose. 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 rockrose a common word?

rockrose 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.