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Brewer's rockcress

Brewer's rockcress noun: boechera breweri, a species of rockcress with purple flowers.

brewer's rockcress: boechera breweri, a species of rockcress with purple flowers
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Noun

Brewer's rockcress (plural Brewer's rockcresses)

  1. Boechera breweri, a species of rockcress with purple flowers.

Forms of Brewer's rockcress

pluralBrewer's rockcresses

Origin of Brewer's rockcress

From Brewer (surname) + -'s + rockcress, a calque of translingual Boechera breweri.

Questions about Brewer's rockcress

What does Brewer's rockcress mean?
Brewer's rockcress means boechera breweri, a species of rockcress with purple flowers.
What part of speech is Brewer's rockcress?
Brewer's rockcress is a noun.
What is the plural of Brewer's rockcress?
The plural of Brewer's rockcress is Brewer's rockcresses.

Words near Brewer's rockcress in the dictionary

  1. brewer's droop
  2. brewer's goitre
  3. brewer's goitres
  4. Brewer's mole
  5. brewer's rice
  6. Brewer's rockcress
  7. Brewer's sparrow
  8. Brewer's spruce
  9. Brewer's theorem
  10. brewer's yeast
  11. brewer's yeasts

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