DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan
3.12.152.102
Search for:
▼[Show options]
[Pronunciation] [Help] [Database Info] [Server Info]

2 definitions found

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mouse-ear n. Bot. (a) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus. (b) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
 Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and Cerastium viscosum).
 Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium Thaliana). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name.
 ◄ ►

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mouse-ear cress
      n : a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white
          flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first
          higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described
          [syn: Arabidopsis thaliana]