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FIELD PENNYCRESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does field pennycress mean?

• FIELD PENNYCRESS (noun)
The noun FIELD PENNYCRESS has 1 sense:

1. foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America

Familiarity information: FIELD PENNYCRESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FIELD PENNYCRESS (noun)

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Meaning:

Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fanweed; field pennycress; French weed; mithridate mustard; penny grass; stinkweed; Thlaspi arvense

Hypernyms ("field pennycress" is a kind of...):

pennycress (any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi)

Holonyms ("field pennycress" is a member of...):

genus Thlaspi; Thlaspi (herbs of temperate regions: pennycress)

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