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pennycress

[pen-ee-kres]

pen·ny·cress

[pen-ee-kres]
noun
any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
Also, penny cress, pen·ny-cress.


Origin:
1705–15; penny + cress
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pennycress (ˈpɛnɪˌkrɛs)
 
n
any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi of temperate Eurasia and North America, typically having small white or mauve flowers and rounded or heart-shaped leaves: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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pennycress

(genus Thlaspi), plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), named and sometimes grown for its round seedpods. Most of the 60 species are Eurasian, but a few are native to North and South America, mostly in mountain areas. Common pennycress, or field pennycress (T. arvense), has penny-shaped (flattened and circular) notched pods, which are borne on stalks along the spike; at the ends of the spikes are small, white, four-petaled flowers

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