northern rock cress

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northern rock cress (uncountable)

  1. A member of species Arabis petraea, a kind of rockcress, growing in central and northern Europe. [from 19th c.]
    • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 155:
      On the rock walls, there are several clumps of northern rock-cress.