ARABIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabis mean? 

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

1. annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arabis; genus Arabis

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Arabis"):

rock cress; rockcress (any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis)

Arabis Canadensis; sicklepod (North American rock cress having very long curved pods)

Arabis turrita; tower cress; tower mustard (European cress having stiff erect stems; sometimes placed in genus Turritis)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)