PENNYCRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pennycress mean? 

• PENNYCRESS (noun)
  The noun PENNYCRESS has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi

  Familiarity information: PENNYCRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENNYCRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pennycress" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pennycress"):

fanweed; field pennycress; French weed; mithridate mustard; penny grass; stinkweed; Thlaspi arvense (foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America)

Holonyms ("pennycress" is a member of...):

genus Thlaspi; Thlaspi (herbs of temperate regions: pennycress)