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Definition of Rock beauty
1. Noun. Gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Beauty
Literary usage of Rock beauty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"rock beauty. A common name for Draba Pirenaica. Rock-Cress. See Arabis. Rocket.
See Hesperia. Rocket. Candytuft. Iberia coronaria. Rocket. Dyer's. ..."
2. Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs by William Robinson (1910)
"A. "rock beauty !" as it seems, as one sees its fresh green tufts, not more than
an inch high, and cushioned amidst the broken rocks. ..."
3. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"TRULY 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 ..."
4. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920: And Year Book of American Poetry by Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Edith Wharton (1920)
"But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set
about with wrecks of ships, upon our coasts, death keeps the shallows ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The "blue-angel" (Holacanthus ciliaris) represents a genus containing several
West Indian species, of which the most important is the "rock beauty" (H. ..."
6. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"... (rock beauty).—P. pyrenaica is a beautiful little alpine plant, great rounded
leaves, as large as a small sunshade and used as such by Japanese children ..."
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