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SHAD-FLOWER
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I. (noun)
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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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shad-flower" 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)