Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Alyssum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Madwort \Mad"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A genus of cruciferous plants ({Alyssum}) with white or
yellow flowers and rounded pods. {A. maritimum} is the
commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered
annual.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alyssum \A*lys"sum\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, name of a plant, perh.
fr. 'a priv. + ? raging madness.] (Bot.)
A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The {sweet alyssum}
({A. maritimum}), cultivated for bouquets, bears small,
white, sweet-scented flowers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
alyssum
n 1: any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of
small yellow or white flowers [syn: {madwort}]
2: a genus of the family Cruciferae [syn: {Alyssum}, {genus
Alyssum}]
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