WORMSEED MUSTARD

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Meaning:

Slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed; formerly used as an anthelmintic

Synonyms:

Erysimum cheiranthoides; wormseed mustard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wormseed mustard" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("wormseed mustard" is a member of...):

Erysimum; genus Erysimum (large genus of annual or perennial herbs some grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves; Old World and North America)

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