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‖ Sisymbrium Bot.|sɪˈsɪmbrɪəm|
Also 6 sisimbrium.
[L., ad. Gr. σισύµβριον some sweet-smelling plant.]
A genus of herbaceous cruciferous plants (under which water-cress was formerly included); hedge-mustard, garlic-mustard.
1562Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 140 The seconde kynde of Sisymbrium is called cardamine also, in Englishe water cresses. 1580–3Greene Mamillia i. Wks. (Grosart) II. 23 The hearbe Sisimbrium growes not to a great braunch in a moment. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 205 Sisymbrium double and simple. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v., The smooth rocket-leaved sisymbrium with yellow flowers. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 64/1 In Sisymbrium the cotyledons are folded with their back upon the radicle. |