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

Sheridan Downey was raised from Virginia stock in Laramie, Wyo. He returned there after learning the law at Ann Arbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Northern grit and Southern fire, for she sprang from New England and good Virginia stock; I've seen no woman with her superb confidence.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Bindloss, Harold

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.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

"But his wife, who was Lucy Upton, my great grandmother, was of Virginia blood, and all of the next two generations intermarried with people of Virginia stock."

From The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

His wife was of old Virginia stock, a relative of Chief Justice Marshall, and a pronounced Southern woman, though too good a wife to make her sympathies give annoyance to her husband or his guests.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Cox, Jacob Dolson