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alyssum |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Madwort \Mad"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous plants ({Alyssum}) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. {A. maritimum} is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alyssum \A*lys"sum\, n. [NL., fr Gr ?, name of a plant, perh. fr 'a priv. + ? raging madness.] (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The {sweet alyssum} ({A. maritimum}), cultivated for bouquets, bears small white, sweet-scented flowers. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: alyssum n 1: any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers [syn: {madwort}] 2: a genus of the family Cruciferae [syn: {Alyssum}, {genus Alyssum}]
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