madwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers
    alyssum.

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Mad"wort` noun
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913