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/ˈrɒk ˌbjuːti/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌbjudi/ 1. An alpine plant, Petrocallis pyrenaica (sometimes called Draba pyrenaica), of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae), typically having pale pink or lilac flowers. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers
garden rocket1548
queen's gillyflower1573
cuckoo-flower1578
damask violet1578
dame's-violet1578
rogue's gilliflower1578
wild passerage1578
lady's smock1593
Canterbury bells1597
close-sciences1597
sea stock-gillyflower1597
cardamine1609
melancholic gentleman1629
melancholy gentleman1629
Whitsun gilliflower1656
Hesperis1666
rocket1731
queen's violet1733
queen's July-flower1760
Virginian stock1760
spinka1774
damewort1776
virgin-stock1786
pink1818
sea-stock1849
clown's mustard1861
rock beauty1870
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1870 W. Robinson Alpine Flowers ii. 272 Petrocallis Pyrenaica—Beauty of the Rocks... A ‘rock beauty!’ as everybody must confess who sees its fresh light-green tufts, not more than an inch high, and cushioned snugly amidst the broken rocks.
1930 H. Correvon Rock Garden & Alpine Plants xii. 249 D[raba] (Petrocallis) pyrenaica. Rock Beauty.
1964 A. N. Griffith Collins Guide to Alpines 205 This very small genus [sc. Petrocallis] provides us with one charming little plant which well deserves its name of Rock Beauty.
2. A yellow and blackish-brown angelfish, Holacanthus tricolor (family Pomacanthidae), found on coral reefs in the Caribbean. Also more fully rock beauty angelfish.
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the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun]
mudfish1502
sprat1552
frogfish1598
rockfish1605
yellowtaila1622
sleeper1668
picarel1688
hogfish1735
porkfish1735
sucker1753
zebrafish1771
yellowbelly1775
white steenbras1801
stone-toter1817
stargazer1842
warehou1848
baardman1853
goatfish1864
holostome1864
spot snapper1876
suck-fish1876
mademoiselle1882
queenfish1883
cigar-fish1884
emperor fish1884
rock beauty1885
oilfish1896
aholehole1897
berrugate1898
Photoblepharon1902
sweet-lip1934
rabbitfish1941
redbait1960
1885 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1884 7 155 Holacanthus tricolor... ‘Rock Beauty’.
1959 R. P. L. Straughan Salt-water Aquarium in Home iv. 85 Rock Beauties..need plenty of aeration.
1977 D. J. Coffey Encycl. Aquarium Fish 141/1 Rock Beauty... From the Caribbean, this yellow fish has a black patch that expands with age.
2004 Dive Sept. 37/1 An equally common sight on these dives is rock beauty angelfish spawning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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