Virginia stock

American  

noun

1. a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.

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Virginia stock British  

noun

1. a Mediterranean plant, Malcolmia maritima , cultivated for its white and pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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Example Sentences

On both sides of my house—the Old Virginia stock—I had several relatives who drank to excess; and it seems to me that the appetite must have passed through our family to me.

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Its population is pure American, mostly of old Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia stock.

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Then on a fine spring morning he paid a visit to the old woman who sold penny packets of seeds, and bought nasturtiums, mignonette, Virginia stocks and candytuft, twelve pansy roots and twelve daisy roots.

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Mignonette, Virginia stock, collinsia, should be sown in spring in little patches or lines.

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The artist who seized instinctively this opportunity was born at New Orleans on October 12th, 1844, of colonial Virginia stock on the one side, and New England on the other.

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