English > Erysimum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large genus of annual or perennial herbs some grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves; Old World and North America. |
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| Synonym | genus Erysimum |
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| Member of | Cruciferae, family Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family | A large family of plants with four-petaled flowers |
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| Members | Siberian wall flower, Erysimum allionii, Cheiranthus allionii | showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers |
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| prairie rocket | Any of several North American plants of the genus Erysimum having large yellow flowers |
| wallflower | Any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers |
| western wall flower, Erysimum asperum, Cheiranthus asperus, Erysimum arkansanum | biennial or short-lived perennial prairie ... / prairie rocket having orange-yellow flowers |
| wormseed mustard, Erysimum cheiranthoides | Slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed |
| Broader | dilleniid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
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| Spanish | erysimum, genus erysimum |
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| Catalan | Erísim, erysimum, genus erysimum |
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