Definition of Draba

1. Noun. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique.

Group relationships: Genus Draba
Specialized synonyms: Draba Verna, Shad-flower, Shadflower, Whitlow Grass
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Draba

dozier
doziest
dozily
doziness
dozinesses
dozing
dozings
dozy
dozyite
dozzled
dpc4
dpt immunization
dr
draatsi
draba (current term)
drabbed
drabber
drabbers
drabbest
drabbet
drabbets
drabbier
drabbiest
drabbing
drabbish
drabble
drabbled
drabbler
drabblers

Literary usage of Draba

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1908)
"267 (1905) I reported as draba borealis DC. a plant found in fruit on seacliffs at Bic, Rimouski County, Quebec. Subsequently I have been able to examine ..."

2. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1901)
"Type of the Genus draba. The name draba was originally, and very anciently, ... The Lepidium draba of that author is the type which, according to the law of ..."

3. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Sowerby, James Edward Smith, George Shaw (1804)
"draba aizoides. Linn. Mant. 91. Willden. Sp. PI. v. 3. 424. Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 2. 55. t. 192. Curt. Mag. t. 170. The roots are perennial, branched, ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"In fields. Kentucky to Kansas, south to Florida. Texas and northern Mexico, west to southern California. Feb.-April. K 4. draba ..."

5. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"draba aurea Vahl. in Hornem. Fl. (Econ. Ed. 2, 599 (1806). 1918. ... draba nemorosa L. Sp. Pl. 643 (1753). 1926. draba ramosissima Desv. Journ. Bot. ..."

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