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

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

She often boasted of her "blue blood Virginia stock."

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives by Work Projects Administration

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

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

He was a man of good Virginia stock, not fired by large ambitions.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.