WHITLOW GRASS

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Meaning:

Annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules

Synonyms:

Draba verna; shad-flower; shadflower; whitlow grass

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("whitlow grass" is a kind of...):

draba (any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique)

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