[1605–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crater, gothic, ideal, inverse, turnover
Examples of 'rock plant' in a sentence
rock plant
There's nothing wrong with rock plants, even if rockeries have gone.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But here's the funny thing: we still seem happy to call the plants that were grown in rockeries 'rock plants'.