resurrection : Idioms & Phrases

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christ's resurrection

  • noun (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion
    Resurrection; Christ's Resurrection.
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Cross of the resurrection

  • a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars.
Webster 1913

resurrection fern

  • noun fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa
    grey polypody; gray polypody; Polypodium polypodioides.
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resurrection of christ

  • noun (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion
    Resurrection; Christ's Resurrection.
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Resurrection plant

  • noun densely tufted fern ally of southwestern United States to Peru; curls up in a tight ball when dry and expands and grows under moist conditions
    rose of Jericho; Selaginella lepidophylla.
  • noun small grey Asiatic desert plant bearing minute white flowers that rolls up when dry and expands when moist
    rose of Jericho; Anastatica hierochuntica.
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  • (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S. lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.
Webster 1913