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FIELD PENNYCRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does field pennycress mean?
• FIELD PENNYCRESS (noun)
The noun FIELD PENNYCRESS has 1 sense:
1. foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
Familiarity information: FIELD PENNYCRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
fanweed; field pennycress; French weed; mithridate mustard; penny grass; stinkweed; Thlaspi arvense
Hypernyms ("field pennycress" is a kind of...):
pennycress (any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi)
Holonyms ("field pennycress" is a member of...):
genus Thlaspi; Thlaspi (herbs of temperate regions: pennycress)
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