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aubretia

Variant of aubrieta

noun

any of a genus (Aubrieta) of plants of the crucifer family native to the Middle East, with showy, purplish flowers: often grown in rock gardens

also aubretia or aubrietia

Origin: ModL, after Claude Aubriet, 18th-c. Fr painter of floral and animal subjects

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