SHAD-FLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shad-flower mean? 

• SHAD-FLOWER (noun)
  The noun SHAD-FLOWER has 1 sense:

1. annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules

  Familiarity information: SHAD-FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAD-FLOWER (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Draba verna; shad-flower; shadflower; whitlow grass

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)