Arabis

From Ancient Greek ἀραβίς (arabís, “whitetop (Lepidium draba)”).

Arabis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Brassicaceae – rockcresses and certain similar plants.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids - clades; Brassicales - order; Brassicaceae - family; Arabideae - tribe

• (genus): Arabis alpina; for other species see Arabis on WikispeciesWikispecies or Arabis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Arabidella
• Arabidopsis
• Dendroarabis

• Arabis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arabis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Arabis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Arabis at USDA Plants database
• Arabis at Brassibase

• Arabus, Artabius, Artabis

From Ancient Greek Ἄραβις (Árabis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ra.bis/, [ˈäräbɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ra.bis/, [ˈäːräbis]

Arabis m sg (genitive Arabis); third declension

1. A river of Gedrosia, now the Puran
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.2:

     Gedrosos, qui Arabim amnem accolunt, Alexandri Magni classium praefecti prodiderunt in domibus fores maxillis beluarum facere, ossibus tecta contignare, ex quibus multa quadragenum cubitorum longitudinis reperta.

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

• Arabis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arabis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly