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COMMON GARDEN CRESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual herb used as salad green and garnish

Synonyms:

common garden cress; garden pepper cress; Lepidium sativum; pepper grass; pepperwort

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common garden cress" is a kind of...):

cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)

Meronyms (parts of "common garden cress"):

garden cress (cress cultivated for salads and garnishes)

Holonyms ("common garden cress" is a member of...):

genus Lepidium; Lepidium (cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress)

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