English Explanatory Dictionary

rose of Sharon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A flower of uncertain kind: perhaps Pancratium maritimum, which grows on the Sharon Plain of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
  2. Hypericum calycinum, an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia.
  3. Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, and a national emblem of South Korea.

Word forms

rose of Sharon roses of Sharon

Etymology

Calque of Biblical Hebrew חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן (khavatsélet hasharón), from the King James Bible.

Synonyms

great St. John's-wort Jerusalem star Aaron's beard mugunghwa
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