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DRABA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("draba" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draba"):
Draba verna; shad-flower; shadflower; whitlow grass (annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules)
Holonyms ("draba" is a member of...):
genus Draba (large genus of low tufted herbs of temperate and Arctic regions)
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