Usually means: Succulent plant with rosette shape.
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  1. desert rose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. desert rose: Vocabulary.com
  3. desert rose: Wiktionary
  4. desert rose: Dictionary.com
  5. Desert Rose (Eric Johnson song), Desert Rose (Sting song), Desert Rose (plant), Desert rose (crystal), Desert rose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. desert rose: Rhymezone
  7. desert rose: FreeDictionary.org
  8. desert rose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. desert rose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Desert Rose: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desert rose: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See desert_roses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (desert rose)

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

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