arabis

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun arabis has 1 sense

arabis(n = noun.plant) genus arabis - annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress;

is a kind of dilleniid dicot genus

is a member of brassicaceae, cruciferae, family brassicaceae, family cruciferae, mustard family

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

arabis, n. any plant of the genus Arabis, low-growing with toothed leaves and usu. white flowers. Also called rock cress (see ROCK(1)), wall-cress.

Etymology

med.L f. Gk, = Arabian