winter rose

1. 1.

   European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers

   SynonymsChristmas roseblack helleboreHelleborus niger

   Broaderhellebore

Questions about winter rose

What does winter rose mean?

winter rose means "European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers".

What is another word for winter rose?

Close synonyms include Christmas rose, black hellebore, Helleborus niger. 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 winter rose a common word?

winter 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.