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.
- rootlet
- root-like
- root mean square
- root nodule
- root note
- root period
- root pressure
- root-prune
- root pruning
- root-puller
- root room
- root rot
- root run
- root seller
- root sheath
- root sign
- rootsiness
- roots music
- root someone on
- root someone's boot
- root something out
- root something up
- root stem
- rootstock
- root swell