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ar⋅a⋅bis

[ar-uh-bis]
–noun
any plant of the genus Arabis, including the rock cresses.

Origin:
1570–80; < NL < Gk árabis (s. arabid-) Arabian mustard (deriv. with arab-, as in Arabía Arabia, Áraps Arab, etc.); prob. applied to the plant because it grows in rocky or sandy soil
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arabis

noun
annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress 
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