pennycress

IPA: pˈɛnikrɛs

Any of several plants, of the genus Thlaspi, that have flattened seedpods (in the form of an old penny)

Examples of "pennycress" in Sentences

Alpine pennycress uses metal as 'armour' against infection.
Tune in next week and I will continue with field pennycress.
Isbell predicts 2011 is the earliest pennycress could hit retail markets.
Field pennycress and shepherdspurse are weaker hosts than purple deadnettle and henbit.
Because pennycress is cold-tolerant, Canadian researchers are now in full-blown investigations.
It was pennycress, a weed that came to the United States as a contaminant with shipments of wheat.
Perennial BioEnergy LLC: Development of a biodiesel industry based on pennycress, non-food winter oilseed which can be integrated with summer cash crops such as corn and soybeans.
“It showed that Alpine pennycress was best at taking in heavy metals, although neither it nor any of the other plants took in metals fast enough to achieve significant cleansing in 3 years.”
Alpine pennycress (Thlaspi caerulescens) is a small plant in the mustard family that grows on metal-rich soils scattered around Britain and Europe, such as the sites of former mine workings.