Arabis is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 107 anagrams from letters in Arabis (aabirs).
1570-80; New Latin Greek árabis (stem arabid-) Arabian mustard (derivative with arab-, as in Arabía Arabia, Áraps Arab, etc.); probably applied to the plant because it grows in rocky or sandy
A double daffodil looks horribly out of place, while the double white rock cress (arabis albida) will pass.
It was tolerated rather than cultivated, as was its companion, the arabis or Rock Cress—both crowding, monopolizing creatures.
Where the soil became more loamy, arabis petra again came in.
An interesting rock-cress is found in the arabis Depauperata, which here shows the results of its fierce struggles for existence.
The caterpillar feeds on Sisymbrium, arabis, Cardamine, and other cruciferous plants.
arabis alpina ; Aubrietia purpurea ; Alyssum saxatile : all three very easy to grow, and very common.
The arabis is easily propagated by slips or rootlets, which should be taken after flowering.
The flowers of arabis have white petals with the centre yellowish green, as is also the calyx.
There are many kinds of arabis, widely distributed, with small, white or purplish flowers.
In northern Indiana he found this butterfly abundant in April at the time of the blossoming of arabis lyrata.