Bot. [med.L. Arabis, so named prob. from growing on sandy or stony places.] A genus of cruciferous plants, species of which are grown on rock-work, and as border-flowers in early spring.
[1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 629. This herbe [candy Thlaspi] is called … in Latine. Arabis and Draba.]
1706. Phillips, Arabis, a sort of Water-cress call’d candy Thlaspy.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxiii. 324. Arabis has four glands, within the leaflets of the calyx.
