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from The Century Dictionary.
- A tribe of cruciferous plants, characterized by a silicle compressed contrary to the usually narrow partition, and by straight accumbent cotyledons. It includes 16 genera, of which Thlaspi (the type), Iberis (the candytuft), and Teesdalia are the most important.
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