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Definition of Tower mustard

1. Noun. Or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe.

2. Noun. European cress having stiff erect stems; sometimes placed in genus Turritis.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tower Mustard

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Literary usage of Tower mustard

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

1. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The species are hardy annuals: one, the smooth tower-mustard (T. glabra), is indigenous, and grows wild on banks and by roadsides, in a dry gravelly soil. ..."

2. The History of the County of Derby by Stephen Glover (1829)
"... smooth tower mustard, gravelly pastures, May to June, white, Masson hill, near Smedley's cavern hirsuta, hairy tower mustard, old walls, May, white, ..."

3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"At Lee's Cliff I find the radical leaves of the early saxifrage, columbine, and the tower mustard, etc., much eaten apparently by partridges and perhaps ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1890)
"(Smooth Tower-mustard.) Sandy woods and pastures. A tall slender plant with yellowish flowers and leaves only apparently, not really, perfoliate. June —2. ..."

5. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"Alpine Tower-mustard. Nut. of Ireland. Fl. June and July. H. $ . pi. 3. p. 545. 11. ... Hairy Tower-mustard. Nat. of Britain. Fl. May-July. HV IS. ..."

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