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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.
Specialized synonyms: Draba Verna, Shad-flower, Shadflower, Whitlow Grass
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draba
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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