Siberian wallflower

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noun

a North American plant, Erysimum asperum, of the mustard family, having orange-yellow flowers.

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Origin of Siberian wallflower

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby Siberian wallflower

Siberian high, Siberian husky, Siberian larkspur, Siberian ruby, Siberian squill, Siberian wallflower, siberite, sibilance, sibilant, sibilate, Sibirʾ

How to use Siberian wallflower in a sentence

"Our Siberian girls are admired more by Asian countries than by the West," Elite Stars school director Tatyana Fetisova told me.
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Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a Siberian prison camp.
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The Iberian versus Siberian debate followed the archeological gold trail from Kennewick back to Montana.
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Specifically: the second it appeared in that trailer for The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Those Siberian winds are cold, and cold temperatures mean absurdly light powder.
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Without any, sire; and it is to be feared that in a short time dispatches will no longer cross the Siberian frontier.
Michael Strogoff|Jules Verne
It had become evident that a formidable rebellion threatened to wrest the Siberian provinces from the Russian crown.
Michael Strogoff|Jules Verne
No iron ways lead from those precious mines which make the Siberian soil far richer below than above its surface.
Michael Strogoff|Jules Verne
The natives whom business called beyond the Siberian frontier could not leave the province for a time at least.
Michael Strogoff|Jules Verne
Besides a tarantass, drawn by good Siberian horses, will always go faster than a gypsy cart!
Michael Strogoff|Jules Verne