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Definition: Alyssum maritimum
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.
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Alyssum
\A*lys"sum\ ([.a]*l[i^]s"s[u^]m), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
'a`lysson, name of a plant, perh. fr. 'a priv. + ly`ssa
raging madness.] (Bot.)
A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The
sweet alyssum
(
Alyssum maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small,
white, sweet-scented flowers.
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