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stone cress

stone cress noun: any of the flowering plants of the genus Aethionema.

stone cress: any of the flowering plants of the genus Aethionema
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Noun

stone cress (countable and uncountable, plural stone cresses)

  1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Aethionema.

Forms of stone cress

pluralstone cresses
alternative formstonecress

Questions about stone cress

What does stone cress mean?
Stone cress means any of the flowering plants of the genus Aethionema.
What part of speech is stone cress?
Stone cress is a noun.
What is the plural of stone cress?
The plural of stone cress is stone cresses.

Words near stone cress in the dictionary

  1. stone corals
  2. Stone County
  3. stone crab
  4. stone crabs
  5. stone cream
  6. stone cress
  7. stone cresses
  8. Stone Cross
  9. stone curlew
  10. stone curlews
  11. stone dead

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