stone cress
noun
Any of several low-growing plants which grow on stony ground; especially (in early use) †the rock cress Arabidopsis petraea ( obsolete ), and (in later use) any plant of the Mediterranean genus Aethionema (family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)), commonly cultivated in rock gardens.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in John Gerard (c1545–1612), herbalist.
- chemorganotroph
- chemorganotrophic
- chemorganotrophy
- chemosed
- chemoselective
- chemoselectively
- chemosensitive
- chemosensitivity
- chemosensor
- chemosensory
- chemosis
- chemosmosis
- chemosmotic
- chemosphere
- chemostat
- chemo-statical
- chemosterilant
- chemosurgery
- chemosynthesis
- chemosynthetic
- chemosynthetically
- chemotactic
- chemotactical
- chemotactically
- chemotactism