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desert rose (Adenium)
 
desert rose (barite crystal)

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desert rose (plural desert roses)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see desert,‎ rose.
  2. (botany) a flowering plant
    1. A flowering plant of the genus Adenium, native to Africa and the Middle East; a common ornamental.
    2. Rosa stellata, a species of rose native to North America.
    3. Sturt’s desert rose, of Australia (Gossypium sturtianum).
  3. (mineralogy) A rosette of gypsum or barite crystals formed under certain conditions.
  4. (poetic) An attractive women found in an arid environment

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