drab3 (drab)

[Origin obscure.] A kind of wooden box used in salt-works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling-pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining, that the water may drain off. Draba (dra'ba), n. [NL., δράβη , a plant, Lepidium Draba .] A genus of cruciferous cruciferous plants, low herbaceous perennials, or rarely annuals, often cespitose, distinguished by ovate or oblong many-seeded pods pods with flat nervele valves parallel to the broad septum. There are about 100 species, mostly natives of the colder and mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere, of which 30 are found in North America, chiefly in the western ranges of mountains and in arctic regions. The whitlow-gra of Europe, D. verna , also introduced into some parts of the United States, is a small winter annual and one of the earliest spring flowers.