Definition of Sisymbrium officinale

1. Noun. Stiffly branching Old World annual with pale yellow flowers; widely naturalized in North America; formerly used medicinally.

Exact synonyms: Hedge Mustard
Group relationships: Genus Sisymbrium
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sisymbrium Officinale

Sison
Sison amomum
Sissy
Sistani Persian
Sister
Sister Joseph's nodule
Sister Mary Joseph Dempsey
Sisters
Sistine
Sistrunk
Sistrunk operation
Sistrurus
Sistrurus catenatus
Sistrurus miliaris
Sisymbrium barbarea
Sisymbrium officinale
Sisymbrium tanacetifolia
Sisyphean
Sisyphism
Sisyphus
Sisyphusean
Sisyridae
Sisyrinchium
Sita
Sitka
Sitka spruce
Sitka willow
Sitophylus
Sitophylus oryzae
Sitotroga

Literary usage of Sisymbrium officinale

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

1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"sisymbrium officinale Scop., S. Sophia L., and other species of this genus, known as hedge mustard and by other names, are common weeds in both Europe and ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"sisymbrium officinale Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, 2: 26. 1772. Erect, more or less pubescent, or glabrous, 1°- 3° high, with rigid spreading branches. ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. var. officinale Hedge mustard Herbaceous annual Gardens, fields and waste ground. sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. var. ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. var. officinale Hedge mustard Herbaceous annual Gardens, fields and waste ground. sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. var. ..."

5. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"The entire and emarginate state is shown in the figure of sisymbrium officinale (fig. 168). The second type of emarginate cotyledons occurs among the ..."

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