ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabidopsis thaliana mean? 

• ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA (noun)
  The noun ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA has 1 sense:

1. a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described

  Familiarity information: ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA (noun)

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Meaning:

A small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arabidopsis thaliana; mouse-ear cress

Hypernyms ("Arabidopsis thaliana" is a kind of...):

cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)

 Context examples 

The research has also identified the plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a suitable model to help direct future forestry breeding programmes.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

They found that in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings, the number of clock proteins peaks at different times in each organ.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

The team also imaged the secondary cell walls of Arabidopsis thaliana, an annual plant widely used as the standard reference plant for genetics and molecular biology research.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)