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SHAD-FLOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shad-flower mean?
• SHAD-FLOWER (noun)
The noun SHAD-FLOWER has 1 sense:
1. annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules
Familiarity information: SHAD-FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Draba verna; shad-flower; shadflower; whitlow grass
Hypernyms ("shad-flower" is a kind of...):
draba (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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