Madwort

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Madwort \Mad"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     A genus of cruciferous plants ({Alyssum}) with white or
     yellow flowers and rounded pods. {Alyssum maritimum} is the
     commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered
     annual.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  madwort
       n : any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of
           small yellow or white flowers [syn: {alyssum}]