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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Cardamine, genus Cardaminenoun

    bittercress, bitter cress

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  1. Cardamine

    Cardamine is a large genus of flowering plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, known as bittercresses and toothworts. It contains more than 200 species of annuals and perennials. Species in this genus can be found worldwide, except the Antarctic, in diverse habitats. The name Cardamine is derived from the Greek kardaminē, water cress, from kardamon, pepper grass.

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  1. cardamine

    Cardamine is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), native to various regions in the northern hemisphere. They are found in diverse habitats such as woodland, grassland and wetlands. These plants are known as bittercress, toothwort or coralroot depending on the variety, and have flowers that range in color from white to pink.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cardaminenoun

    a genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc

  2. Etymology: [L. cardamina, Gr. : cf. F. cardamine.]

Wikidata

  1. Cardamine

    Cardamine, is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It contains more than 150 species of annuals and perennials. The genus grows worldwide in diverse habitats, except the Antarctic. Genus Dentaria is a synonym for Cardamine. The leaves can have different forms, going from minute to medium-sized. They can be pinnate or bipinnate. They are basal and cauline, with narrow tips. They are rosulate. The blade margins can be entire, serrate or dentate. The stem internodes lack firmness. The radially symmetrical flowers grow in a racemose many-flowered inflorescence or in corymbs. The white, pink or purple flowers are minute to medium-sized. The petals are longer than the sepals. The fertile flowers are hermaphroditic. The fruits are long, thin dehiscent pods with many seeds. In some regions this plant is considered a nuisance; one author observes, "Weeding this little pest is decidedly unsatisfying, for when its fully ripe pods are touched, they split open and shoot out their seeds, thus spitefully sowing another crop." Some plants were reputed to have medicinal qualities.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cardamine

    kär′da-mīn, n. a genus of cress, including the cuckoo-flower or lady's smock, &c. [Gr. kardaminēkardamon, cress.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Cardamine

    A plant genus of the family BRASSICACEAE that is low-growing in damp meadows of the Northern Hemisphere and has pinnately divided leaves and small white to rose flowers.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cardamine in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cardamine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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