MOUSE-EAR CRESS

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Meaning:

A small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described

Synonyms:

Arabidopsis thaliana; mouse-ear cress

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mouse-ear cress" is a kind of...):

cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)

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