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‖ arabis Bot.|ˈærəbɪs|
[med.L. Arabis, so named prob. from growing on sandy or stony places.]
A genus of cruciferous plants, species of which are grown on rock-work, and as border-flowers in early spring; a plant of the genus.
[1578Lyte Dodoens 629 This herbe [candy Thlaspi] is called..in Latine Arabis and Draba. ]1706Phillips, Arabis, a sort of Water-cress call'd candy Thlaspy. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiii. 324 Arabis has four glands, within the leaflets of the calyx. 1870W. Robinson Alpine Flowers i. 48 The dwarf green Iberises,..Arabises, [etc.]. 1876R. Broughton Joan v, Milk-white arabis haunted by the drowsy booming bees. 1905Westm. Gaz. 10 June 16/1 The white blossoms of the double arabis. |