st. barbara's herb

What does st. barbara's herb mean?

st. barbara's herb means "any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses; widely cultivated for winter salad".

What is another word for st. barbara's herb?

Close synonyms include winter cress, scurvy grass. 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 st. barbara's herb a common word?

st. barbara's herb 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for st. barbara's herb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.