Cress

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  • noun. Any of various plants in the mustard family having pungent leaves, such as garden cress, watercress, or winter cress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The common name of many species of plants, most of them of the natural order Cruciferæ.
  • noun. The common garden-cress, Lepidium sativum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
  • noun. See under Bitter.
  • noun. a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless “not worth a curse.”
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
  • noun. pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs
  • Word Usage
    "The delicate French rolls which were now always ready for her uncle's plate in the morning, had sometimes nothing to back them, unless the unfailing water-cress from the good little spring in the meadow."
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