DRABA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draba mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRABA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

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

Draba verna; shad-flower; shadflower; whitlow grass (annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules)

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

genus Draba (large genus of low tufted herbs of temperate and Arctic regions)