rose of Sharon

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Biblical Hebrew חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן (khavatsélet hasharón), from the King James Bible. === Noun === rose of Sharon (plural roses of Sharon) (biblical) A flower of uncertain kind: perhaps Pancratium maritimum, which grows on the Sharon Plain of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Hypericum calycinum, an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia. Synonyms: great St. John's-wort, Jerusalem star, (in one of its senses) Aaron's beard Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, and a national emblem of South Korea. Synonym: mugunghwa