THLASPI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thlaspi mean? 

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

1. herbs of temperate regions: pennycress

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THLASPI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs of temperate regions: pennycress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Thlaspi; Thlaspi

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Thlaspi"):

pennycress (any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi)

fanweed; field pennycress; French weed; mithridate mustard; penny grass; stinkweed; Thlaspi arvense (foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)