stinkweed
Americannoun
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Also called: wall mustard. a plant, Diplotaxis muralis, naturalized in Britain and S and central Europe, having pale yellow flowers, cylindrical seed pods, and a disagreeable smell when bruised: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
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any of various other ill-smelling plants, such as mayweed
Etymology
Origin of stinkweed
Example Sentences
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The group of about 25 people came to survey one of the first large-scale plantings of covercress, the genetically tweaked version of stinkweed, or pennycress.
From Reuters • May 26, 2021
A disparate group met in an Illinois field on a windy spring morning to study a crop some call stinkweed.
From Reuters • May 26, 2021
A disparate group met in an Illinois field on a windy spring morning to study a crop some call stinkweed.
From Reuters • May 26, 2021
Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose�flat and sere.
From Time Magazine Archive
But due to a severe blight on our stinkweed crop, which as you know is our staple diet, our people are becoming severely malnourished.
From The Forest Monster of Oz by Evans, Bob
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