madwort

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madwort - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Madwort \Mad"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or
     yellow flowers and rounded pods. Alyssum maritimum is the
     commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered
     annual.
     [1913 Webster]

madwort - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  madwort
      n 1: any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of
           small yellow or white flowers [syn: alyssum, madwort]