Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of plants, of the order Cruciferæ; wall- or rock-cress.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress
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Examples
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Such spring-flowering perennials as the white arabis, herbaceous candytufts, aubretias, primulas, and polyanthuses, should now be placed in situations where it is desired for them to flower.
Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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The arabis with its snowy blossoms is beautiful beneath the early tulips.
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The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis.
Through the Wall Wentworth, Patricia 1950
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The coming of spring brings it – the first crocus pricking up, dawn a moment earlier day by day, the mist of green on honeysuckle hedges in February, the early arabis, spicily warm, with the bees 'hum about it.
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Toadflax and arabis climb over the old garden walls: one little house looks as if its walls were held together by coils of wistaria.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Only one or two strayed sometimes to the early arabis, desultory and sad, driven home again by the frosty air to await the purple times of honey.
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern -- the _Polypodium vulgare_ -- and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom -- white, yellow, and purple.
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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So, too, spinach and lettuce may be covered with blight, while the bitter spurges, the woolly-leaved arabis, and the strong-scented thyme close by are utterly untouched.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Mountain dryas, yellow and white draba and arabis species, golden daisy, anemones, and white, rose and yellow heathers make thick carpets of green that cover most of the plateau.
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