cress

[Cress]

Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste

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A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

Noun
pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs

Noun
any of various plants of the family Cruciferae having edible pungent-tasting leaves

n.
A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

Cress

Cress (kr?s), n.; pl. Cresses (krs"z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. &hand; The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses.

To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.

Bitter cress. See under Bitter. -- Not worth a cress, ∨ "not worth a kers." a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." Skeat.

A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

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