field pennycress

Questions about field pennycress

What does field pennycress mean?

field pennycress means "foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America".

What is another word for field pennycress?

Close synonyms include French weed, fanweed, penny grass, stinkweed, mithridate mustard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field pennycress a common word?

field pennycress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.