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

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

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.

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

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