Definition of desert rose:
(n) :
A flowering plant of species Adenium obesum, native to Africa and the Middle East; a common ornamental.
(n) :
(botany) a flowering plant
(n) :
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see desert, rose.
(n) :
(mineralogy) A rosette of gypsum or barite crystals formed under certain conditions.
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Sturt’s desert rose (Gossypium sturtianum), of Australia.
(n) :
A star rose, gooseberry rose (Rosa stellata), a rose native to North America.