noun

• A low-growing herbaceous plant that typically bears white or pink flowers, frequently grown in rock gardens.

  Also called rock cress

  Genus Arabis, family Brassicaceae

  ‘Clip back aubretias, arabis and perennial candytufts when they have finished flowering.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Items stolen have included potentilla bushes, arabis and fuchsias.’
  • ‘Both are but a few inches high, and are pretty planted in spreading patches about the drifts of snowy Arabis in bloom at the same time.’