aubrietia

[ aw-bree-shuh, -shee-uh, oh-bree- ]

noun

1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Aubrietia, of the mustard family, forming dense mats and having numerous small, purplish flowers.

aubrietia

/ ɔːˈbriːʃə /

noun

1. any trailing purple-flowered plant of the genus Aubrieta, native to European mountains but widely planted in rock gardens: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

Word History and Origins

Origin of aubrietia¹

1763; < New Latin, named after Claude Aubriet (1651–1743), French painter of plants and animals; -a ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of aubrietia¹

C19: from New Latin, named after Claude Aubriet, 18th-century French painter of flowers and animals

Example Sentences

Aubrietia.—Beautiful dwarf spring-blooming rock plants, forming carpety tufts of flowers of simple cruciferous form.

From Project Gutenberg

In the front row patches of the white arabis, the yellow alyssum, white, yellow, blue, or purple violas, and the purple aubrietia, recurring at intervals of 5 or 6 yards on a border of considerable length, carry the eye forwards and give a balanced kind of finish to the whole.

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They walked up and down the platform, by the side of which the station-master's arabis and aubrietia, primroses and daffodils, were making a fine show.

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At the time this submarine was sighted it was headed directly for this splendid aggregation of cargo vessels; had not the Aubrietia discovered it and had not one of the American destroyers started in pursuit, the U-boat would have made an attack and possibly would have sent one or more ships to the bottom.

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This special service ship, the Aubrietia, was hardly a member of the protective escort.

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