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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Virginia stock

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson

"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 Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

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